From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2010-05-13T05:53:44+09:00
Subject: Re: ri on sqlite

On May 10, 2010, at 17:48, botp wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
>> RDoc uses Marshal data files now and fastri uses the old yaml files.
>> Maybe someday somebody will actually bother contributing improvements to RDoc instead of letting them fall by the wayside every other year.  (hint, hint)
> 
> i just updated rdoc to latest, and rebuilt all docs. yes, rdoc is a
> lot better (faster & more comprehensive) now.

Thanks!

If you have any suggestions for further improvements I'd love to hear them.  The easiest place is on the bug tracker at rubyforge.

> i've always thought (and i was terribly wrong) that rdoc is builtin in
> ruby19 and that a simple gem update would rebuilt it... so there.. a
> terrible nuby error on my part...

The way RubyGems works you can use it to replace any part of the standard library provided you call gem before require.  The other big library that uses this is soap4r like:

gem 'soap4r'
require 'soap4r'