From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-05-08T20:46:26+09:00
Subject: Re: No documentation for File's methods?

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Albert Schlef <albertschlef@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, people! I'm the original poster.


> Now, suppose I want the documentation for File::new. What should I do?
>
> I do the following:
>
> $ qri File::new
> ---------------------------------------------------------------- IO::new
>     IO.new(fd, mode_string)   => io
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     Returns a new IO object (a stream) for the given integer file
>     descriptor and mode string. See also IO#fileno and IO::for_fd.
>
>
> That's wrong. I get documentation for IO::new that involves some numeric
> 'fd' parameter.
>
> How do I get the documentation for File::new?

I don't know. The problem might be that fastri is behind and recent
changes to rdoc have led to incompatibilities. See the comments here
http://blog.segment7.net/articles/2009/01/28/rdoc-rdoc_chm-rdoc_html_templates-2-3-0-released

I fear that Mauricio has lost interest in his Ruby stuff and appears
to have moved off to other shiny objects.



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