From: matt@... (matt neuburg)
Date: 2008-09-27T11:24:41+09:00
Subject: Re: RDoc 2.2.0 released

Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:

> On Sep 25, 2008, at 18:54 PM, matt neuburg wrote:
> > Tony Strauss <tony.strauss@designingpatterns.com> wrote:
> >>> Cool, thanks so much for looking into this. I meant to report that
> >>> I'm
> >>> not getting superclass information on any classes when I use  
> >>> "ri" (and
> >>> this has been true for a couple of versions now, I think). I don't
> >>> know
> >>> what the expected behavior is here, though.
> >
> >> I think that we fixed this in RDoc 2.2.1.  In order to see the fix,
> >> however, you'll need to rebuild your system's Ruby documentation  
> >> (again
> >
> > Cool! I had some trouble updating the gem, apparently because rubygems
> > itself needed updating, but I got it sorted and then followed the
> > instructions on the blog (thanks for that). Now when I say
> >
> > ri File#read
> >
> > I am told about IO#read. Nice!
> >
> > I am still not being told, as part of ri's output, who is the  
> > superclass
> > of the class I'm inquiring about. But maybe that is not part of what
> > ri
> > is intended to display? In any case this is a lot better than what I
> > was
> > seeing before.
> >
> > Indeed, it would be nice if the list of known classes were  
> > hierarchical
> > (class -> subclass).
> >
> > One other tiny suggestion. It would be nice, perhaps, if there were a
> > space after the comma after method names when they are listed. For
> > example, I'm seeing
> >
> > ...next,next!,oct,original_succ...
> >
> > But it might be more legible as
> >
> > ...next, next!, oct, original_succ...
> 
> Can you file bugs in the tracker?  This way they won't be forgotten.

Done. m.

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