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ri: Ruby API reference front end

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NAME

ri - Ruby API reference front end

SYNOPSIS

ri [-ahilTv [-d DIRNAME ] ] [-f FORMAT ] [-w WIDTH ] [-- [no- pager ] ] [--server [= PORT ] ] [-- [no- list-doc-dirs ] ] [--no-standard-docs ] [-- [no- Bro system | site | gems | home Brc ] ] [-- [no- profile ] ] [--dump = CACHE ] [name ... ]

DESCRIPTION

ri is a command-line front end for the Ruby API reference. You can search and read the API reference for classes and methods with ri.

ri is a part of Ruby.

name can be:

Class | Module | Module::Class

Class::method | Class#method | Class.method | method

gem_name: | gem_name:README | gem_name:History

All class names may be abbreviated to their minimum unambiguous form. If a name is ambiguous, all valid options will be listed.

A `.' matches either class or instance methods, while #method matches only instance and ::method matches only class methods.

README and other files may be displayed by prefixing them with the gem name they're contained in. If the gem name is followed by a `:' all files in the gem will be shown. The file name extension may be omitted where it is unambiguous.

For example:

ri Fil
ri File
ri File.new
ri zip
ri rdoc:README

Note that shell quoting or escaping may be required for method names containing punctuation:

ri 'Array.[]'
ri compact\!

To see the default directories ri will search, run:

ri --list-doc-dirs

Specifying the --system , --site , --home , --gems or --doc-dir options will limit ri to searching only the specified directories.

ri options may be set in the RI environment variable.

The ri pager can be set with the RI_PAGER environment variable or the PAGER environment variable.

OPTIONS

-i

-- [no- interactive ]

In interactive mode you can repeatedly look up methods with autocomplete.

-a

-- [no- all ]

Show all documentation for a class or module.

-l

-- [no- list ]

List classes ri knows about.

-- [no- pager ]

Send output to a pager, rather than directly to stdout.

-T

Synonym for --no-pager

-w WIDTH

--width = WIDTH

Set the width of the output.

--server [= PORT ]

Run RDoc server on the given port. The default port is~8214.

-f FORMAT

--format = FORMAT

Use the selected formatter. The default formatter is bs for paged output and ansi otherwise. Valid formatters are: ansi , bs , markdown , rdoc

-h

--help

Show help and exit.

-v

--version

Output version information and exit.

Data source options:

-- [no- list-doc-dirs ]

List the directories from which ri will source documentation on stdout and exit.

-d DIRNAME

--doc-dir = DIRNAME

List of directories from which to source documentation in addition to the standard directories. May be repeated.

--no-standard-docs

Do not include documentation from the Ruby standard library, site_lib installed gems, or ~/.rdoc Use with --doc-dir

-- [no- system ]

Include documentation from Ruby's standard library. Defaults to true.

-- [no- site ]

Include documentation from libraries installed in site_lib Defaults to true.

-- [no- gems ]

Include documentation from RubyGems. Defaults to true.

-- [no- home ]

Include documentation stored in ~/.rdoc Defaults to true.

Debug options:

-- [no- profile ]

Run with the Ruby profiler.

--dump = CACHE

Dump data from an ri cache or data file.

ENVIRONMENT

RI

Options to prepend to those specified on the command-line.

RI_PAGER

PAGER

Pager program to use for displaying.

HOME

USERPROFILE

HOMEPATH

Path to the user's home directory.

FILES

~/.rdoc

Path for ri data in the user's home directory.

REPORTING BUGS

• Security vulnerabilities should be reported via an email to Mt security [at] ruby-lang.org . Reported problems will be published after being fixed.

• Other bugs and feature requests can be reported via the Ruby Issue Tracking System (Lk https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ ) Do not report security vulnerabilities via this system because it publishes the vulnerabilities immediately.

AUTHORS

Written by An Dave Thomas Aq dave [at] pragmaticprogrammer.com .