From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2003-05-27T15:02:26+09:00
Subject: Re: extending rdoc for custom accessors

Dave Thomas wrote:
> Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> 
>>
>> My code has some things that work a bit like "attr_reader" et al, but 
>> of course rdoc doesn't know about them. Is there an easy way to extend 
>> rdoc to handle such things?
> 
> 
> That depends on what you'd expect in terms of the resulting output. 
> Making the parser pluggable is pretty easy: you could write an extension 
> that handled stuff that matched a regexp you provided, and I'd call you 
> when that regexp hit in the right context.
> 
> However, unless you were satisfied with one of the existing output 
> fields, you'd also need to extend the output formatters to add new 
> sections to the generated HTML/XML/etc. This might be messier.
> 
> So, so summarize: if you want your accessors to appear in the standard 
> accessors section, it's easy. otherwise it's harder.

Actually, the caller sees the accessors just like any other accessors, 
so the easy approach will work for me. Is there anything I can do?