From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2013-02-21T07:26:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Rdoc cannot find ruby files


On Feb 20, 2013, at 12:42 , Hakim Benbekhti <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> I am new to ruby and I am going through Peter Cooper’s book (Novice to
> Professional).
> I am stuck on a chapter that deals with “Generating Documentation with
> RDoc”.
> 
> I am using Ruby 1.9.3 on Mac OS with Eclipse. I am trying to create some
> Ruby Documentation for my files.
> To try that, I am writing a program called Person.rb in Eclipse and then
> I try to create Ruby Documentation from the command line but I get an
> error message:
> 
> From the Command Line, when I type: rdoc person.rb (or any other file).
> The Terminal returns the following error message:
> 
> file 'person.rb' not found (this message comes up for any ruby files)
> 
> I know rdoc is installed, that is already a certainty but then I have no
> idea how to solve the problem and surprisingly I have not found any
> helpful information on the web so far.
> 
> Would anyone have an idea of what I should do?

Case sensitivity of your filesystem? You said the file is "Person.rb" and then you run "rdoc person.rb". Try "rdoc Person.rb" instead?