From: "Sven C. Koehler" <schween@...>
Date: 2009-04-05T04:28:34+09:00
Subject: Re: rdoc question: C v Ruby

On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 05:31:54AM +0900, Eric Hodel wrote:
> On Apr 3, 2009, at 06:10, Sven C. Koehler wrote:
>> I have one class that gets defined in C and has some methods which  
>> were
>> easier to write in Ruby (so there's rbmodule.c and module.rb, which
>> extends the class with some methods) .  I've documented both the  
>> methods
>> in C and the ones in Ruby (including a general explanation of the  
>> class).
>> When I run rdoc, however, it only uses the inline documentation from  
>> the
>> C file and not the inline documentation I wrote in the Ruby part of  
>> the
>> class.  Is there maybe another way to organize the rdoc?
>
> This is correct.  Which RDoc are you using?  The latest is 2.4.3.

I am using RDoc V1.0.1 - 20041108, which seems to be the version that
comes with ruby 1.8.6.  Would separating the documentation into an extra
file, like modulename.rdoc, work better with older rdoc versions like
this one?

-S.