Hi All,
New boy here... :-).
I recently downloaded Ruby 1.8.6 for Windows (One-click installation)
and after some time running Ruby from the Command prompt I got fed up
with constantly switching between "DOS-Edit" and a Windows text
editor so decided to try SciTE which I noticed was part of the distribution.
I soon got to like SciTE and am liking it more all the time but I was
unable to get any response from thew program when I wanted language
help (i.e. clicking Help | Help ( or F1)), which was a great
disappointment as I need all the help I can get with Ruby and was
hoping to have it at my fingertips via SciTE.
I joined this mailing list with the intention of asking, in due
course, how to activate Ruby language help but before I received my
first digest I'd solved the problem. So here, for the benefit of
other Ruby tyros using SciTE, is what I did.
The Ruby language help file is called "ProgrammingRuby.chm" and is to
be found in the \doc directory of the distribution.
After much searching, I found that SciTE, as received, is looking in
the wrong place ... (easy when you know where to look :-))
In the file ruby.properties (Options | Open ruby.properties) the line:
command.help.*.rb=$(CurrentWord)!c:\apps\ruby\ProgrammingRuby.chm
needs to be changed to:
command.help.*.rb=$(CurrentWord)!c:\ruby\doc\ProgrammingRuby.chm
(In my case. I'd installed everything in a top-level directory called
ruby. Check your own full path).
That's it for now. Hope this may be of use to someone perplexed by
the non-working Help button!
Regards,
Dick Summerfield,
Eindhoven,
The Netherlands.
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