From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2003-05-27T05:48:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Project Directory Structure

Jim Freeze wrote:

>>RDoc won't write into an existing doc/ directory if it thinks that it 
>>didn't produce it in the first place.
> 
> 
> Thats good to know. What will it do, complain?

No, it reformats the disk partition containing the directory, so that 
the directory no longer exists. It then continues, safe in the knowledge 
that it won't overwrite any existing content.


Cheers


Dave


(or...

dave[course/samples 15:46:01] mkdir doc
dave[course/samples 15:46:03] rdoc fib.rb

                              fib.rb: .
Generating HTML...

Directory doc already exists, but it looks like it
isn't an RDoc directory. Because RDoc doesn't want to risk
destroying any of your existing files, you'll need to
specify a different output directory name (using the
--op <dir> option).