ri bug?

[Joel VanderWerf]

This is with ruby built from source on linux (ubuntu 5.10):

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-linux]
$ ri Set
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_formatter.rb:80:in `conv_html':
private method `gsub' called for ["Example"]:Array (NoMethodError)
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_formatter.rb:167:in
`display_flow_item'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_formatter.rb:212:in
`display_flow'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_formatter.rb:211:in
`display_flow'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_display.rb:268:in
`display_flow'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_display.rb:89:in
`display_class_info'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_display.rb:199:in `page'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_display.rb:77:in
`display_class_info'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_driver.rb:71:in
`report_class_stuff'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_driver.rb:106:in
`get_info_for'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_driver.rb:135:in
`process_args'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_driver.rb:134:in
`process_args'
from /usr/local/bin/ri:48

 

[Eric Hodel]

This is with ruby built from source on linux (ubuntu 5.10):

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-linux]
$ ri Set
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_formatter.rb:80:in `conv_html':
private method `gsub' called for ["Example"]:Array (NoMethodError)
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_formatter.rb:167:in
`display_flow_item'

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [powerpc-darwin8.4.0]
$ ri -v
ri v1.0.1 - 20041108
$ ri Set
------------------------------------------------------------- Class: Set
...

Is your ri data correct?

 

[Joel VanderWerf]

This is with ruby built from source on linux (ubuntu 5.10):

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-linux]
$ ri Set
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_formatter.rb:80:in `conv_html':
private method `gsub' called for ["Example"]:Array (NoMethodError)
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_formatter.rb:167:in
`display_flow_item'

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [powerpc-darwin8.4.0]
$ ri -v
ri v1.0.1 - 20041108
$ ri Set
------------------------------------------------------------- Class: Set
...

Is your ri data correct?

Thanks! That seems to have been the problem. I deleted
/usr/local/share/ri and did make install-doc again. It must have been
something left over from an old installation. All ok now.