From: Stefan Lang <langstefan@...>
Date: 2005-11-08T23:41:32+09:00
Subject: Re: rake/rdoc problem

On Monday 07 November 2005 11:02, Kev Jackson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm getting this error when I try to execute the rdoc task from
> rake
>
> undefined method `exitstatus' for nil:NilClass
>
> My rakefile looks like...
>
> require 'rake'
> require 'rake/rdoctask'
>
> Rake::RDocTask.new { |rdoc|
>   rdoc.rdoc_dir = 'doc'
>   rdoc.title = "Title"
>   rdoc.options << '--line-numbers --inline-source'
>   rdoc.main ="README"
>   rdoc.rdoc_files.include('README')
>   rdoc.rdoc_files.include('lib/*.rb')
>   rdoc.rdoc_files.exclude('_darcs/**/*.rb')
> }
>
> running the rdoc command manually creates the documentation
>
> rdoc -o doc --line-numbers --inline-source --main 'README' --title
> 'Title' -T 'html' README lib/*.rb --exclude _darcs/**/*.*
>
> except it creates docs for files in the darcs repo (which I'd
> rather it didn't) and it cannot find my README file, but the file
> is present in the directory from which the command is executed.
>
> I assume I'm being dense

It is a limit of the batch script that starts rdoc on Windows.
It delegates only the first 8 arguments. The rest will be silently
cut off.

From an answer of myself to a similar post:

> Some options for you:
> 
> * Replace the Rake::RDocTask with:
> 
> � � task "rdoc" do
> � � � � require 'rdoc/rdoc'
> � � � � # give the same arguments as to rdoc from commandline
> � � � � # try "rdoc --help"
> � � � � RDoc::RDoc.new.document(%w(--title rrt_ruby -T html .....))
> � � end
> 
> � � (The problem with invoking rdoc from the commandline on
> � � �Windows is, that a batch file is the start script which
> � � �takes only 8 (or something like that) arguments.)
> 
> * Use Rant: http://make.ruby-co.de
> � It's easy to convert a Rakefile to a Rantfile.

HTH,
� Stefan