From: Paul Na Date: 2011-02-09T21:59:57+09:00 Subject: Re: issue with activerecord Peter Zotov wrote in post #980457: > On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 10:55:08 +0900 > Paul Na wrote: > >> ... RDOC args: lib README.rdoc >> (continuing with the rest of the installation) >> Installing RDoc documentation for activerecord-3.0.4... >> ERROR: While generating documentation for activerecord-3.0.4 >> ... MESSAGE: error generating <.html: Invalid argument - >> C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/g >> ems/1.8/doc/activerecord-3.0.4/rdoc/<.html (Errno::EINVAL) >> ... RDOC args: lib README.rdoc >> >> Has anyone got any idea why this is happening and what it means > > > That error messages mean that RubyGems cannot generate documentation > for the gems you install (activerecord, in this case). Documentation is > not distributed in gems (probably for size reasons); instead, it is > generated from the source code each time when one installs the gem. > > Sometimes, due to some incompatibilites in systems/RDoc versions/etc > this process fails. It just means you cannot use your locally generated > documentation (use api.rubyonrails.org instead); this does not affect > usability of the gem. You can install it with > `gem install activerecord --no-ri --no-rdoc`, if you want to get rid of > the errors themselves. Hi Peter, I have tried --no-ri --no-rdoc which does solve the issue , but i also tried uninstall rdoc rdoc-data and reinstall them aswell running rodc-data --install and gem rdoc-data --all --overwrite which does not seem to work Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.