From: Aldric Giacomoni <aldric@...>
Date: 2008-11-14T01:07:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting the comments(RDoc/ri) while running

It's a little open-ended ... I use Netbeans as my IDE when I write code,
its code-completion feature is amazing for Ruby as well as Rails. Would
that satisfy you? It shows a list of commands and the rdoc for it
underneath.

--Aldric

Vassilis Rizopoulos wrote:
> The problem:
> There is this parser, dynamically extensible with methods from modules. 
> In very mundane fashion the methods have a standard prefix (like 
> Test::Unit does it) so there is no problem getting the list of the methods.
> Now the methods handle elements in a DSL and there are conditions and 
> parameters that each element expects. All this information is currently 
> available as an RDoc comment for each method.
> Aside from making a system call to ri and grabbing the output is there 
> any other clever way to grab those comment lines?
> Now, I want the comments in the RDoc so I don't want to do something 
> like the 'desc "describe this task"' trick that rake does.
> Any clever ideas?
> Cheers,
> V.-