From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2012-06-19T07:53:49+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:45704] Re: Missing/wrong documentation for Dir::exist? and Dir::exists?

On Jun 17, 2012, at 03:06, sto.mar@web.de wrote:
> while browsing through the documentation for the Dir class,
> I have noticed that the methods Dir::exist? and Dir::exists?
> are not adequately documented, see
> 
> <http://ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.1/Dir.html#method-c-exist-3F>
> 
> Instead, the documentation for directory? is given,
> which is not even a class method of Dir (but of File).
> 
> I thought I could try to fix this and checked out the source, but...
> 
> Obviously the methods exist? and exists? are defined in `dir.c'
> as some kind of aliases for File.directory? (of `file.c') and
> the documentation is taken directly from there.
> 
> I have no idea how to fix this or whether this is also
> an issue elsewhere.

This was fixed by nobu with r36120:

http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=36120