Documentation for Ruby and Gems?

[cootcraig]

Please advise. How does a Ruby developer view documentation?

For instance I do
gem install prawn
and see:

Successfully installed prawn-core-0.8.4
Successfully installed prawn-layout-0.8.4
Successfully installed prawn-security-0.8.4
Successfully installed prawn-0.8.4
4 gems installed
Installing ri documentation for prawn-core-0.8.4...
Installing ri documentation for prawn-layout-0.8.4...
Installing ri documentation for prawn-security-0.8.4...
Installing ri documentation for prawn-0.8.4...
Installing RDoc documentation for prawn-core-0.8.4...
Installing RDoc documentation for prawn-layout-0.8.4...
Installing RDoc documentation for prawn-security-0.8.4...
Installing RDoc documentation for prawn-0.8.4...

Then I run
$ ri -l |grep -i prawn |less

Prawn
Prawn#PdfObject
Prawn#EncryptedPdfObject
Prawn::LiteralString
Prawn::OutlineItem
Prawn::Font
Prawn::Font::load
Prawn::Font#line_gap
Prawn::Font#normalize_encoding!
Prawn::Font#ascender
Prawn::Font#add_to_current_page
Prawn::Font#descender
Prawn::Font#height_at
Prawn::Font#height
Prawn::Font#normalize_encoding
Prawn::Font::DFont
Prawn::Font::DFont::font_count
Prawn::Font::DFont::named_fonts
...

I was expecting some kind of GUI for navigating,viewing,search the
local and web based docs.


FWIW. My environment is Ubuntu 10.04, using Bluefish as my project
editor.

[Kevin McFadden]

Brooke mentioned the gem "open_gem".

There's also:

http://www.gotapi.com/rubyrails
http://apidock.com/rails

or you can just run "gem server" to see all the compiled documentation
for your installed gems right in your browser.

Kev

[cootcraig]

"gem server" is very useful, I didn't know about this.