From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-12-25T12:50:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Hpricot ri and rdoc documentation

On Dec 24, 2006, at 17:28, bbiker wrote:
> Eric Hodel wrote:
>> That's because there is none:
>>
>> $ gem spec hpricot | grep rdoc
>> has_rdoc: false
>> rdoc_options: []
>> extra_rdoc_files:
>>
> Apparently there was(is) rdoc documentation ... googling "hpricot +
> rdoc"
> yielded the following link:
> www.gemjack.com/gems/hpricot-0.4-mswin32/index.html

has_rdoc is set to false by the author when they've got nothing  
helpful in their project.  Forcing rdoc to generate won't get you  
much useful information.

> I guess I will try to find a gem depository that has the hpricot gem
> with documentation.

There is no such thing.  RDoc is generated after installation and is  
not shipped with gems.

> I would really like to obtain the ri documentation since it is usually
> more verbose.

The best way of doing this is downloading the hpricot sources, add  
the RDoc to them, then submit patches back.

Anything else will leave you with little other than method names and  
parameter names.

-- 
Eric Hodel - drbrain@segment7.net - http://blog.segment7.net

I LIT YOUR GEM ON FIRE!