From: Jos Backus <jos@...>
Date: 2004-04-20T03:15:30+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby Installer for Windows 1.8.1-12

Some feedback: rdoc and ri still don't work out of the box:

C:\Ruby\bin>rdoc --version
c:\Ruby\bin\ruby.exe: No such file or directory -- c:/Ruby/bin/rdoc.rb
(LoadErro
r)

C:\Ruby\bin>ri --version
The system cannot find the drive specified.

C:\Ruby\bin>

bin/rdoc needs to be renamed rdoc.rb.
bin/ri needs to be renamed ri.rb.

The paths at the top of ri.bat are still wrong:

E:\Dev\RubyDev\rubyinstaller\cvs-repo\installer\stable\bin\ruby -x
"E:\Dev\RubyDev\rubyinstaller\cvs-repo\installer\stable/bin/ri.bat" %1 %2 %3
%4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

After I fixed the above I tried running:

C:\Ruby\bin>ri 'Array.[]'
No ri documentation found in:
     C:/Ruby/share/ri/1.8/system
     C:/Ruby/share/ri/1.8/site
     c:\dev/.rdoc

Was rdoc run to create documentation?

C:\Ruby\bin>

So I ran `rdoc -R' in C:/Ruby. Finally, after several minutes rdoc dies with
the following message:

                     proxyserver.rb: mmm..c...c...c..
Generating RI...
c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/markup/simple_markup/to_flow.rb:92:in `accept_rule': u
ndefined local variable or method `size' for #<SM::ToFlow:0xc5ea900> (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:107:in `genera
te_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 `generat
e'
        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 `generat
e'
        from c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/rdoc.rb:210:in `document'
        from c:/Ruby/bin/rdoc.rb:63

C:\Ruby>

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