From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2011-06-18T09:50:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.9.3 documentation challenge

On Jun 17, 2011, at 2:12 AM, Markus Fischer wrote:
> On 16.06.2011 23:55, Justin Collins wrote:
>> Markus Fischer wrote:
>>> - Is there an encouragement to document private methods? If not it would
>>> be nice if they could be omitted from the coverage. Otherwise just so we
>>> know what the goal is.
>>> 
>> 
>> I can't speak for Eric, but I think part of documenting is marking the
>> code which does not need documenting with :nodoc:
> 
> But rdoc, at least by default,  does not document private methods. I
> assume it's just a limitation of the coverage tool for now.

When you run `make` on ruby trunk rdoc is run with --all so private methods are picked up.  The coverage report does the same.