Ruby RPM Missing ri doc

[Mark Sargent]

Hi All,

I installed Ruby via yum,

     sudo yum install ruby

 
and got this when quizzing ri,

    $ ri methods
    No ri documentation found in:

    Was rdoc run to create documentation?


    Installing Documentation
    ------------------------
    'ri' uses a database of documentation built by the RDoc utility.

    So, how do you install this documentation on your system? It depends on
    how you installed Ruby.

    _If you installed Ruby from source files_ (that is, if it some point you
    typed 'make' during the process :), you can install the
    RDocdocumentation yourself. Just go back to the place where you have
    your
    Ruby source and type

     make install-doc

    You'll probably need to do this as a superuser, as the documentation is
    installed in the Ruby target tree (normally somewhere under
    +/usr/local+.

    _If you installed Ruby from a binary distribution_ (perhaps using a
    one-click installer, or using some other packaging system), then the
    team that produced the package probably forgot to package the
    documentation as well. Contact them, and see if they can add it to the
    next release.



doing the following,

    sudo yum install | grep ruby*

    $ sudo yum list | grep ruby*
    Password:
    grub.i386                                0.97-5    installed
    ruby.i386                                1.8.4-3.2    installed
    ruby-libs.i386                           1.8.4-3.2    installed
    eruby.i386                               1.0.5-5.2.1    core
    eruby-devel.i386                         1.0.5-5.2.1    core
    eruby-libs.i386                          1.0.5-5.2.1    core
    jruby.noarch                             0.7.0-4jpp    jpackage-generic
    jruby-javadoc.noarch                     0.7.0-4jpp    jpackage-generic
    perl-HTML-Scrubber.noarch                0.08-3.fc5    extras
    ruby.i386                                1.8.4-5.fc5    updates
    ruby-clearsilver.i386                    0.10.3-3.fc5    extras
    ruby-debuginfo.i386                      1.8.4-5.fc5    updates
    ruby-devel.i386                          1.8.4-5.fc5    updates
    ruby-docs.i386                           1.8.4-5.fc5    updates
    ruby-irb.i386                            1.8.4-5.fc5    updates
    ruby-libs.i386                           1.8.4-5.fc5    updates
    ruby-mode.i386                           1.8.4-5.fc5    updates
    ruby-mysql.i386                          2.7-8.fc5    extras
    ruby-rdoc.i386                           1.8.4-5.fc5    updates
    ruby-ri.i386                             1.8.4-5.fc5    updates
    ruby-tcltk.i386                          1.8.4-5.fc5    updates
    scrub.i386                               1.7-1.fc5    extras
    subversion-ruby.i386                     1.3.2-2.1    updates




shows that there is a ruby-docs rpm. I'm assuming that that is what I 
need. I wish to ask, is this an oversight of the rpm maintainer or 
intended, perhaps? Makes ruby less productive if so, don't you think? I 
also rqn rdoc, but no change in error. Cheers.

Mark Sargent.