From: Ilmari Heikkinen <kig@...>
Date: 2005-03-04T10:52:15+09:00
Subject: Re: IHelp: a bugreport and an extension (mocked-up repost)

Hi,

On 4.3.2005, at 00:34, Cs. Henk wrote:

> Hi!
>
> A couple of days ago I posted this stuff to comp.lang.ruby, but it
> didn't hit the ml since then, so I repost it. (As even Ilmari didn't
> react to the original posts, I consider them lost.)

I hear the news-ml gateway has been less than cooperative lately.

> * Bugreport:
>
>  Array.help just throws the following at you:
>
> ---------------------------------------------- Class: TSortArray <  
> Array
>      (no description...)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> -

Thanks for the bug report, how to reproduce this?
Particularly: what architecture, loaded libraries?

It's strange though, Array.help really shouldn't go _down_
in the inheritance hierarchy. First time for everything I suppose.


> * Extension:
>
> ihelp-dump.rb, you find it at http://www.creo.hu/~csaba/ruby/ with
> generated rdoc.
>
> It enables you to dump rendered docs to any object which features #<<.
>
> Also comes with the handy methods for resetting the formatter engine  
> and
> to output all docs belonging to a given class/module.
>
> Csaba
>

Thank you for this aswell, it looked like it might come handy on a  
quick glance.
I'll look into it more once I wake up...

Ilmari
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