From: Trans Date: 2008-11-05T07:41:16+09:00 Subject: Re: Newbie question on RDoc--top-level functions On Nov 4, 4:18 pm, Kenneth McDonald wrote: > How do I get a top-level function (one not defined inside a class) to   > show up in RDoc output. I have a number of such functions, and they   > don't appear to be showing up anywhere. Not really a good practice in any case. You can just move them to Object, which is effectively the same (except public vs. private): class Object # ... methods here end If you consider them general purpose core extensions then Kernel may be more appropriate: module Kernel # ... methods here end T.