From: Christopher Dicely <cmdicely@...>
Date: 2008-04-02T09:55:15+09:00
Subject: Re: What is the RDoc on File talking about?

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Phillip Gawlowski
<cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> wrote:
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>  Oliver Saunders wrote:
>  |> Because right now RDoc puts all File related stuff together, from all
>  |> files that modify the class.
>  |
>  | Ahh OK.
>  |
>  | I can see it lists the files the RDoc was generated from as "In:" but is
>  | it possible to tell which methods come from where? I'd like to know
>  | which I can use without requiring anything.
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>  Not in an easy way (you could compare the methods the requiring adds,
>  though).
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>  The easy way of knowing what methods are at your disposal at any given
>  time, is #methods with its pal #sort. This is inherited from Object
>  (IIRC), and you can always uses those to a) find out what methods are
>  available, and b) sort the output.
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>  This is especially useful in irb.

True. Personally, using IRB, I'm fond of the construction:
puts (foo.methods - Kernel.methods).sort.join("\t")