From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2006-08-06T10:18:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with RDoc


On Aug 5, 2006, at 10:30 AM, Chris Gehlker wrote:

>> RDoc documents the files you give it--it doesn't execute the code  
>> to find out what files you use. You have two files, each of which  
>> adds methods to My_Class, so it documents both sets of definitions.
>
> Exactly.
>
> I think one could make a good argument that this is the *right*  
> behavior. It can be a bit surprising though, given the practice of  
> some Ruby developers of distributing files that are 'in progress'  
> along with the files are actually required in their projects.  
> Sometimes these 'in progress' files actually contain more extensive  
> RDoc documentation than the files that are actually required into  
> the main class.


You can use --exclude to ignore those files that are in development.


Dave