From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2003-12-28T00:11:50+09:00
Subject: Re: The great ri conversion... :)


"Dave Thomas" <dave@pragprog.com> wrote in message
> Cheers
>
> Dave
>
> (*) Why Unix only? Because I haven't even tried it on a Windows box
> yet. It might work, but then again... I _will_ try it at some point.

I tried it on Windows ! It worked !! Well, almost (see below ;-)

DISCLAIMER: I am just a user of  "benchtimer.rb", not the author
I have attached the ruby source of that file for reference only.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
C:\>ruby -v
ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i386-mswin32]

C:\>rdoc -v
RDoc V1.0pr1: 2003/12/01 07:12:48 (1.1)

C:\> cd RubyConf*

C:\RubyConf2003>rdoc --ri LegoTowerServer.rb

                 LegoTowerServer.rb: c..........
Generating RI...

C:\RubyConf2003>ri LegoTowerServer
------------------------------------------------ Module: LegoTowerServer
     DRb Server to talk to the LegoUSB port
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Constants:
----------
     SCREEN: 0
     FILE:   1
Class methods:
--------------
     new
Instance methods:
-----------------
     bye, close_usb, log_start, log_stop, old_send_msg, open_usb,
     recv_msg, send_msg, sender

C:\RubyConf2003> cd \atest
C:\atest>rdoc --ri benchtimer.rb

                      benchtimer.rb: c.....
Generating RI...
C:/RUBY/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/markup/simple_markup/to_flow.rb:92:in
`accept_rule': undefined local variable or method `size' for
#<SM::ToFlow:0x2c24c80> (NameError)
        from
C:/RUBY/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/markup/simple_markup/fragments.rb:170:in `accept'
        from
C:/RUBY/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/markup/simple_markup/fragments.rb:165:in `each'
        from
C:/RUBY/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/markup/simple_markup/fragments.rb:165:in `accept'
        from C:/RUBY/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/markup/simple_markup.rb:259:in
`convert'
        from C:/RUBY/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/generators/ri_generator.rb:224:in
`markup'
        from C:/RUBY/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/generators/ri_generator.rb:153:in
`generate_method_info'
        from C:/RUBY/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/generators/ri_generator.rb:137:in
`generate_class_info'
        from C:/RUBY/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/generators/ri_generator.rb:136:in
`each'
        from C:/RUBY/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/generators/ri_generator.rb:136:in
`generate_class_info'
        from C:/RUBY/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/generators/ri_generator.rb:90:in
`process_class'
        from C:/RUBY/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/generators/ri_generator.rb:85:in
`generate'
        from C:/RUBY/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/generators/ri_generator.rb:84:in
`each'
        from C:/RUBY/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/generators/ri_generator.rb:84:in
`generate'
        from C:/RUBY/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/rdoc.rb:210:in `document'
        from C:/RUBY/bin/rdoc.bat:70

C:\atest>
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--------------------------


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