I never use ri for gems.
I always found ri to just really too slow to be of any use, at least on of the machines I use and everytime I install a new gem it seems to slow everything down to a halt.
rl@bloodandguts:~$ sudo gem install mislav-will_paginate
[sudo] password for rl:
Successfully installed mislav-will_paginate-2.3.11
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for mislav-will_paginate-2.3.11...
Updating ri class cache with 9654 classes...
Installing RDoc documentation for mislav-will_paginate-2.3.11...If you never use the ri documenation for gems, you can turn this off in your ~/.gemrc file by adding the gem line.
---
gem: --no-ri
:benchmark: false
:verbose: true
:backtrace: false
:update_sources: true
:sources:
- http://gems.rubyforge.org/
- http://gems.github.com
:bulk_threshold: 1000I think perhaps I need to do a gem cleanup to really clear out anything I’m not using and remove the gems I installed over a year ago for testing and never use.