From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2004-11-05T01:01:39+09:00
Subject: Re: [RAKE] rdoc task fails on Win2k


Austin Ziegler said:
>> Is rdoc universally called via a .bat file on all windows installs?  Is
>> this
>> likely to change?  Do I need to be more aggresive in determining the
>> rdoc
>> command name?
>
> Why not bypass the need for calling the batch file entirely?
>
> def build_rdoc(files)
>   r = RDoc::RDoc.new
>   r.document(["--main", "README", "--title", "Diff::LCS -- A Diff
> Algorithm",
>               "--line-numbers"] + files)
> rescue RDoc::RDocError => e
>   $stderr.puts e.message
> rescue Exception => e
>   $stderr.puts "Couldn't build RDoc documentation\n#{e.message}"
> end

Also an excellent suggestiong.  The #document method in the example, I
assume it takes all the standard command line arguments that RDoc accepts.
 Correct?

Any gotchas in this approach?

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