From: matt@... (matt neuburg)
Date: 2008-08-06T09:18:26+09:00
Subject: Re: rdoc reinstall breaks fast-ri - now what?

Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:

> On Aug 4, 2008, at 08:28 AM, matt neuburg wrote:
> 
> > I am really just not having any luck with rdoc / ri these days.  
> > Because
> > the new version of rdoc promised that File#read would finally succeed
> > (automatic lookup of methods in the supercclass), I downloaded it. It
> > didn't change anything so I rebuilt my documentation from scratch. Now
> > fast-ri is broken. Can anyone divine from this error what's gone wrong
> > and what I should do? Thx - m.
> >
> > $ qri String
> > /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `transfer': invalid subclass
> > (TypeError)
> >        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `node_import'
> >        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load'
> >        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load'
> >        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_descriptions.rb:72:in
> > `deserialize'
> 
> Looks like qri is using RDoc 1.0.1, which is shipped with ruby.  RDoc
> 2's on-disk YAML format is not backwards compatible with RDoc 1.  RDoc
> 2 can read RDoc 1's format due to some use of regular expressions.   
> fast-ri would need to be updated to read the RDoc 2 classes.

Thx, Eric, as always. If this is right, then it's all up to fastri. I've
filed a bug report at fastri.rubyforge.com, and also I've notified the
TextMate list (TextMate's RubyMate help functionality uses qri, which is
how I discovered the problem). m.

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