I am trying to obtain documentation using ri on my local machine. If I dont require any method in my script and I want to find information on .value or .inspect or anything that is native without calling in a method how can I look that up with ri, or even rdoc?
If you just search on the method name, you should get a list of all the objects that have it:
$ ri value
= .value
(from ruby core)
=== Implementation from Cookie
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value()
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Returns the value or list of values for this cookie.
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All objects have a base class of Object so you can get more specific, too:
$ ri Object.inspect
= Object.inspect
(from ruby core)
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obj.inspect -> string
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Returns a string containing a human-readable representation of obj. By
default, show the class name and the list of the instance variables and their
values (by calling #inspect on each of them). User defined classes should
override this method to make better representation of obj. When
overriding this method, it should return a string whose encoding is compatible
with the default external encoding.
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