How do you find anything on Ruby Doc?

Question

How are you supposed to find stuff on Ruby Doc? I can't find navigate it at all.

Answer 1

You can do a custom Google search:

  http://ruby-doc.org/q/<your search string>

Answer 2

I use http://www.gotapi.com/rubyrails

Regards,

Larry

Answer 3

I use the lookup gem I wrote. Does Ruby + Rails documentation.

Answer 4

Use ri, the command line tool:

% ri
ri v1.0.1 - 20041108

Usage:

  ri [options]  [names...]

Display information on Ruby classes, modules, and methods.
Give the names of classes or methods to see their documentation.
Partial names may be given: if the names match more than
one entity, a list will be shown, otherwise details on
that entity will be displayed.

Nested classes and modules can be specified using the normal
Name::Name notation, and instance methods can be distinguished
from class methods using "." (or "#") instead of "::".

For example:

    ri  File
    ri  File.new
    ri  F.n
    ri  zip

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

    ri 'Array.[]'
    ri compact\!

For help on options, type 'ri -h'
For a list of classes I know about, type 'ri -c'

Answer 5

Try RubyBrain.