From: Ian Macdonald <ian@...>
Date: 2004-01-01T10:26:47+09:00
Subject: Re: rdoc: how to generate rdoc & ri documentation of standard library?

On Thu 01 Jan 2004 at 00:00:48 +0900, Dave Thomas wrote:

> To get something more meaningful, start in the Ruby source tree (not 
> the installed library) and issue the command
> 
>       rdoc --ri *.c lib/*.rb
> 
> That will document (in ri form) the built-in functions and all the 
> direct standard library classes. It'll take a minute or two, but when 
> it's done, you'll be able to say
> 
>    ri  Array
>    ri CGI
>    ri Tempfile::open

If I issue the command line above, I get class entries for Array and
Hash (and probably others) that contain no methods. If I amend the
command line to 'rdoc --ri *.c' (i.e. excluding 'lib/*.rb'), the Array
and Hash entries get populated with their methods.

A bug?

Ian
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