From: listrecv@...
Date: 2006-07-19T05:55:14+09:00
Subject: Re: ri, rdoc, gems, and rails

Thank you, Eric, for the great info.  I followed your directions and
they worked beautifully.

Eric Hodel wrote:
> On Jul 18, 2006, at 8:10 AM, listrecv@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > I'm finding that I get gemdocs even with ri, but not for all packages.
>
> You will need to generate the ri for packages built before 0.9.0.
> These packages never built their ri documentation.
>
> > I get them for Rails' plugins, for instance, but not for rails proper.
> > Does anyone know how I can control which ones appear?
>
> gem rdoc --no-rdoc --ri gemname
>
> will add them.  If you want to remove them permanently you can delete
> them out of the gem's doc dir.  If you want to suppress them install
> ruby from CVS and use the new flags to ri, --system, --site, --gems,
> and --home.
>
> > Also, a problem is when a plugin or monkeypatch adds things to a class
> > - they know appear in the class's ri, even when that extension is only
> > part of a particular lib.  Is there a way to shut this off?
>
> A CVS ruby has ri options for this.  I also have a half-updated gemri
> that will allow you to show ri only for a gem.  I'll finish it and
> add it to rubygems sometime after 1.8.5p2 because it depends on
> features that don't exist yet.
>
> --
> Eric Hodel - drbrain@segment7.net - http://blog.segment7.net
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