From: Patrick Hurley <phurley@...>
Date: 2005-03-25T23:27:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Rake, rdoc, and Windows

FYI under xp batch files support a %* notation to mean all the command
paramerters, so if rdoc.bat was changed from:

@echo off
"c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" "c:\ruby\bin\rdoc" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

to:

@echo off
"c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" "c:\ruby\bin\rdoc" %*

would work better - I do not have older versions of Windows to check
this on - sry
Patrick


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@echo off
"c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" "c:\ruby\bin\rdoc" %*


On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 23:06:32 +0900, Jim Menard <jimm@io.com> wrote:
> Herein is described a problem with using Rake's RDocTask on Windows, and a
> proposed workaround. The workaround works well enough, but does anybody else
> have a better one?
> 
> While prepping my latest project for gemhood, I came across a problem with the
> rdoc task when used on Windows XP: it didn't work. This is documented in a few
> old ruby-talk posts. (See
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/118963?help-en and
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/118968 for some
> proposed solutions).
> 
> Even after fixing the problem by applying the patch described in 118968, there
> was still another problem: the rdoc.bat file (and all Windows batch files)
> only take up to nine arguments. Eight command line options are used by the
> rdoc command before the first file is even mentioned:
> 
> rdoc.bat -o html --main 'README' --title 'MyProjectName' -T 'html' README TODO
> lib/xx.rb lib/xx/file1.rb lib/xx/file2.rb ...
> 
> Here's what I have come up with: instead of the method proposed in 118968
> 
>      def rdoc
>        RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /win32/ ? 'rdoc.bat' : 'rdoc'
>      end
> 
> (and the associated change in RDocTask#define that calls this method), I use
> 
>      def rdoc
>        return 'rdoc' unless RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /win32/
>        require 'rbconfig'
>        bindir = Config::CONFIG['bindir']
>        return "#{File.join(bindir, 'ruby.exe')} #{File.join(bindir, 'rdoc')}"
>      end
> 
> Will this work on all Windows systems, and is it the right thing to do? If so,
> is it an appropriate addition to Rake itself?
> 
> Jim
> --
> Jim Menard, jimm@io.com, http://www.io.com/~jimm
> "This looks like a job for emergency pants!" -- Torg, www.sluggy.com
> 
>