From: Rich Morin <rdm@...>
Date: 2007-02-22T05:17:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby entities and relationships?

At 4:38 AM +0900 2/22/07, Gary Wright wrote:
> What other 'entities' did you have in mind?  Since
> almost everything in Ruby is an object, there isn't
> much left after you've talked about classes, instances,
> and modules.

My motivation is to extend RDoc's coverage and utility.
Currently, RDoc presents the following information about
Ruby entities and relationships:

  Names of Classes, Files, and Methods
  Class or Module each Method is defined in
  Comments for files and methods
  Code/comment snippets for each method

I'd like to go in two directions.  First, I'd like to add
coverage of more entities (e.g., Exceptions, Callbacks,
Variables) and relationships (e.g., which method looks for
which exception).  Then, I'd like to store the information
in a computer-friendly form, such as a set of DB tables,
so they can be accessed by a Rails app, etc.

For now, however, I'm just looking for candidate Es and Rs.

-r
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