3.9.3 / 2011-08-23

• Bug fixes

  • Add US-ASCII magic comments to work with ruby -Ku. Issue #63 by Travis D. Warlick, Jr.

  • Image paths at HTTPS URLs are now turned into +<img>+ tags. Pull Request #60 by James Mead

  • Markup defined by RDoc::Markup#add_special inside a <tt> is no longer converted.

3.9.2 / 2011-08-11

• Bug fix

  • Loosened TIDYLINK regexp to allow any content in the link section like: {foo}[rdoc-ref:SomeClass]

3.9.1 / 2011-07-31

• Bug fixes

  • Fix RDoc::Markup parser for a header followed by a non-text token. Issue #56 by Adam Tait

  • Fix RDoc::Markup::ToHtmlCrossref#gen_url for non-rdoc-ref links.

  • Fix bug report URL when rdoc crashes.

3.9 / 2011-07-30

• Minor enhancements

  • RDoc::Parser::C now supports :doc: and :nodoc: for class comments

  • Added the rdoc-ref: link scheme which links to a named reference. rdoc-ref: can resolve references to classes, modules, methods, files, etc. This can be used to create cross-generator named links unlike the link: scheme which is dependent upon the exact file name. Issue #53 by Simon Chiang

  • Pulled RDoc::CrossReference out of RDoc::Markup::ToHtmlCrossref. Cross-references can now be created easily for non-HTML formatters.

• Bug fixes

  • `ri []` and other special methods now work properly. Issue #52 by ddebernardy.

  • `ri` now has space between class comments from multiple files.

* *

* Remove tokenizer restriction on header lengths for verbatim sections.
  Issue #49 by trans

3.8 / 2011-06-29

• Minor enhancements

  • RDoc::Parser::C can now discover methods on ENV and ARGF.

  • RDoc::Parser::C now knows about rb_cSocket and rb_mDL.

• Bug fixes

  • Updating Object in an ri data store with new data now removes methods, includes, constants and aliases.

3.7 / 2011-06-27

• Minor enhancements

  • New directive :category: which allows methods to be grouped into sections more cleanly. See RDoc::Markup for details.

  • Document-class for RDoc::Parser::C now supports Foo::CONST as well as CONST.

  • ri method output is now a comma-separated list when displayed interactively. Pull Request #39 by Benoit Daloze.

  • RDoc::ClassModule#merge now prefers the argument’s information over the receiver’s (it now behaves like Hash#merge! instead of a backwards Hash#merge!).

  • RDoc::Markup#convert now accepts an RDoc::Markup::Document instance

  • RDoc now owns the code for generating RDoc and ri data when gems install

  • Added RDoc::RDoc::reset

  • Added RDoc::CodeObject#file_name

• Bug fixes

  • ri no longer crashes when attempting to complete a plain [.

  • ri data now tracks which file information came from so it can process removals and changes to:

    • Classes and Modules

    • Methods

    • Attributes

    • Includes

    • Constants

    You will need to rebuild your ri data for it to update properly. Issue #21 by Sven Riedel

  • Signal and SignalException no longer clobber each other

  • RDoc::Parser::C no longer creates classes when processing aliases.

  • RDoc::Text#strip_stars handles Document-method for methods with =, ! and ? now.

  • RDoc::Parser::C now allows .cpp files to be used with the “in” comment on rb_define_method. Bug #35 by Hanmac.

  • RDoc::Parser::Ruby no longer eats content when =begin/=end documentation blocks are followed by a documentable item. Issue #41 by mfn.

  • RDoc::Markup::Formatter and subclasses now allow an optional markup parameter for adding custom markup. The example in RDoc::Markup::Formatter will now work. Issue #38 by tsilen.

  • RDoc::Parser::C can now distinguish between class methods and instance methods in Document-method. Issue #36 by Vincent Batts.

  • RDoc now encodes file names in the output encoding. Issue #33 by Perry Smith.

  • ri data generation for method aliases no longer duplicates the class in full_name

3.6.1 / 2011-05-15

• Bug fixes

  • Fix infinite loop created when re-encountering BasicObject.

  • RDoc::Context#each_ancestor is now provided for duck-typing.

  • rb_path2class() can now be used to discover the parent class in rb_define_class_under.

3.6 / 2011-05-13

• Major Enhancements

  • Interactive ri is now the default when no names are given.

• Minor Enhancements

  • RDoc::RDoc#generate was added to allow multiple generators to be used with a set of parsed file info.

  • RDoc::Options#finish can be called multiple times now.

  • `ri -i` only shows one level of namespace when completing class names.

  • Added `ri –list` for explicit listing. `ri -l F G` will list all classes or modules starting with F or G

• Bug fixes

  • Remove windows-specific test for test_check_files, it is too hard to do. Ruby commit r30811 by Usaku Nakamura.

  • Remove unnecessary (and wrong) platform-dependent hacks. Ruby commit r30829 by Usaku Nakamura.

  • Completing via Array#[ in `ri -i` no longer crashes. Ruby Bug #3167

  • Completing IO::o in `ri -i` now returns results. Ruby Bug #3167

  • RDoc::Parser::C ignores prototypes better. Pull Request #34 by Pete Higgins.

  • private_class_method and public_class_method are now parsed correctly for inherited methods. Issue #16 by gitsucks.

  • The doc directive now forces documentation even when the method is marked private or protected.

3.5.3 / 2010-02-06

• Bug fixes

  • When including a file lossily force-transcode it to the output encoding instead of crashing to preserve as much content as possible. Ruby Bug #4376 by Yui NARUSE.

  • Work around inconsistent encoding result from String#sub!, String#gsub!. Related to Ruby Bug #4376.

  • Work around inconsistent encoding result from String#[]=. Related to Ruby Bug #4376.

  • When Darkfish fails the file being generated is now reported.

3.5.2 / 2010-02-04

• Deprecations

  • RDoc::Context::Section#sequence is now deprecated. Use RDoc::Context::Section#aref instead.

• Bug fixes

  • Fixed syntax highlighting CSS class generation. Reported by Daniel Bretoi.

  • Fixed ri for methods with aliases. Pull Request #15 by Sven Riedel.

  • Added windows-specific test for test_check_files.

  • Darkfish now supports sections. Template and generator author see RDoc::Context#each_section to add section support. RubyForge Bug #26883 by Jeff Hodges.

  • Fixed post-install message for Ruby 1.9.2 users.

  • Set required ruby version to >= 1.8.7.

3.5.1 / 2010-01-30

• Bug fixes

  • Fixed some typos. Pull request #13 by R.T. Lechow.

  • Ensure an RDoc::Stats is created in parse_files. Fixes documentation for railties which has no files. Reported by Aaron Patterson

3.5 / 2010-01-29

• Minor enhancements

  • RDoc::Parser::C looks for rb_scan_args and fills in RDoc::AnyMethod#params appropriately. This may provide useful information if the author did not provide a call-seq.

  • RDoc::Parser::C now records the function name for methods implemented in C.

  • RDoc now records file and byte offset information for methods.

• Bug fixes

  • Locations of module aliases are now recorded.

  • RDoc::Parser::C finds method bodies better now.

  • Fixed further locations where output encoding was not preserved. Bug #11 by Vít Ondruch, RubyForge bug #28791 by Dzmitry Prakapenka.

  • Fixed display of numeric lists on the index page and file pages. Bug #12 by tobijk.

  • Skip TestRDocOptions#test_check_files on windows until a windows-specific test can be created. RubyForge bug #28821 by Usaku Nakamura.

  • Fixed line-height of headings in method and alias descriptions. RubyForge Bug #2770 by Adam Avilla

  • Relaxed RDoc::Parser::Ruby#remove_private_comments to consume more dashes as older versions once did. Bug #7 by Claus Folke Brobak.

3.4 / 2010-01-06

• Minor enhancements

  • RDoc::RDoc#document may now be called with an RDoc::Options instance.

• Bug fixes

  • Added skips to Encoding tests running on 1.8.

  • Fixed warnings

3.3 / 2010-01-03

• Minor enhancements

  • The coverage report can now report undocumented method parameters including methods defined in C.

    <kbd>rdoc -C</kbd> gives a standard report, <kbd>rdoc -C1</kbd> includes method parameters. Method parameters are considered documented if they’re marked-up with +, <code> or <tt>.

  • The C parser now uses *args instead of ... if no call-seq was provided to give names to the arguments.

• Bug fixes

  • The C parser now records the file location of aliases, attributes, constants and methods allowing -C to work on C files.

  • Darkfish now handles dots in call-seq allowing ary.insert(index, obj...) to display correctly. Patch #6 by KUBO Takehiro.

  • Improved processing of meta-programmed methods when followed by unparseable syntax. RubyForge patch #28653 by Aidan Cully.

  • rdoc now touches the flag file when it create the output directory. Prevents the “isn’t an RDoc directory” error if rdoc crashes.

  • RDoc now properly converts to the expected output encoding. RubyForge bug #28791 by Dzmitry Prakapenka.

  • Restored parsing of block comments. RubyForge bug #28668 by Stefano Crocco.

  • Metaprogrammed methods defined with blocks no longer confuse the ruby parser. RubyForge bug #28370 by Erik Hollensbe.

  • ri no longer displays all methods in the inheritance chain.

3.2 / 2010-12-29

• Minor enhancements

  • RDoc generator authors may now suppress updating the output dir (creating a created.rid file) by setting RDoc::Options#update_output_dir to false.

  • RDoc::Task has been refactored to ease creating subclasses.

• Bug fixes

  • RDoc’s gitignore now ignores .DS_Store files. Pull Request #3 by Shane Becker.

3.1 / 2010-12-28

RDoc has moved to github. Releases after 3.1 reference github unless otherwise noted.

• Minor enhancements

  • RDoc::Task now features a generator option to choose an alternate generator. Pull Request #2 by Erik Hollensbe.

  • Enhanced test for RDoc::Parser::binary? RubyForge patch #28538 by Eito Katagiri.

  • Generator list in –help is no longer static. Generator description comes from the generator’s DESCRIPTION constant.

  • Documentation summary is now displayed with dynamic width.

• Bug fixes

  • Strip encoding comment from input to avoid overriding file comment. RubyForge Bug #22113 by James Gray.

  • Restore call-seq parsing behavior when the call-seq is the only comment. RubyForge Bug #26290 by Sylvain Joyeux.

  • Coverage report no longer crashes for constant aliases. Pull Request #1 by Andy Lindeman.

  • RDoc no longer loses ghost methods when followed by certain tokens. RubyForge bug #27793 by Aaron Patterson.

  • RDoc no longer crashes in ri if HOME is not set. Ruby Bug #4202 by Shyouhei Urabe.

  • ri no longer crashes with HTML format output. RubyForge bug #28675 by 7rans.

  • RDoc::Markup::ToHtml#gen_url now initializes from_path to ”. Additionally, from_path is now settable. RubyForge bug #27838 by Claus Folke Brobak.

  • Comments in the C parser are now normalized before being combined. RubyForge patch #28646 by Sven Herzberg.

  • RDoc::Parser::C no longer requires a comment and finds more method bodies. RubyForge patch #28643 by Sven Herzberg.

  • Darkfish now has a “Class/Module Index” instead of a “Class Index”. RubyForge patch #28364 by James Tucker.

  • RDoc::Parser::Ruby now parses negative numbers correctly. RubyForge patch #28544 by Eito Katagiri.

3.0.1 / 2010-12-19

• Bug fix

  • RDoc no longer has a Perl parser.

3.0 / 2010-12-19

Special thanks to Thierry Lambert for massive improvements to RDoc.

• Major enhancements

  • Ruby 1.8.6 is no longer supported by RDoc.

  • RDoc now converts input files to a single encoding specified by --encoding. See RDoc::RDoc and RDoc::Options#encoding. --encoding is now preferred over --charset

  • RDoc now supports a --coverage-report flag (also -C and --dcov) that outputs a report on items lacking documentation.

  • Templates (rdoc -T) are now checked for existence in RDoc::Options. Generator authors can now use RDoc::Options#template_dir which is the full path to the template directory.

  • Added support for class aliases. Patch by Thierry Lambert.

  • Improved merging of classes and modules across multiple files including more accurate documentation statistics. Patch by Thierry Lambert.

  • Improved handling of method aliases. Patch by Thierry Lambert.

  • Improved handling of visibility of RDoc code objects. Patch by Thierry Lambert.

  • RDoc::Attr#type is now RDoc::Attr#definition. Patch by Thierry Lambert.

  • Removed TimeConstantMethods

  • RDoc now calls ::new instead of ::for on generators.

• Minor enhancements

  • Added rdoc arguments --dry-run, --all, --visibility, --force-output, --hyperlink-all. Patch by Thierry Lambert.

  • RDoc::Markup::FormatterTestCase has been expanded. Patch by Thierry Lambert.

  • RDoc::Markup::TextFormatterTestCase has been extracted from RDoc tests. Patch by Thierry Lambert.

  • Various RDoc::Parser::Ruby enhancements. Patch by Thierry Lambert.

  • Various RDoc::Markup::Parser enhancements. Patch by Thierry Lambert.

  • RDoc::Parser::binary? is more robust now that it uses Encoding.

  • Deprecated rdoc arguments are now explicitly mentioned in rdoc command output. Patch by Thierry Lambert.

  • Constant values are formatted more accurately. Patch by Thierry Lambert.

  • Enhanced call-seq parsing in RDoc::Parser::C. Patch by Thierry Lambert.

  • RDoc no longer uses kw, cmt, re or str classes for embedded source code snippets. Patch by Thierry Lambert.

  • RDoc directives may now be escaped with a leading ‘\’. Patch by Thierry Lambert.

  • RDoc note lists (label::) now generate a table with class “rdoc-list”. Patch by Thierry Lambert.

  • RDoc markup documentation has been moved to RDoc::Markup including notes on how to document source code.

  • An RDoc::Require is now always listed at the file level. Patch by Thierry Lambert.

  • RDoc::CodeObjects now know which file they were defined in.

  • RDoc::Options calls ::setup_options on the generator class specified by --format. See RDoc::Options::setup_generator.

  • rdoc gives an error when multiple formats are given.

  • Files with erb inside will no longer trip RDoc::Parser::binary?

  • Last --title wins. Patch by Thierry Lambert.

  • Better block params handling. Patch by Thierry Lambert.

  • Moved rdoc/tokenstream.rb to rdoc/token_stream.rb.

  • Moved rdoc/markup/preprocess.rb to rdoc/markup/pre_process.rb.

  • Removed “‘:’ not followed by operator or identifier” warning for new Hash syntax.

  • rb_attr() is now supported for attributes.

  • RDoc::Parser::C now supports yields, doc, and args directives like RDoc::Parser::Ruby.

  • Moved RDoc::Parser::PerlPOD to the rdoc-perl_pod gem.

• Bug fixes

  • RDoc::Generator tests no longer require any installed RDoc on Ruby 1.9

  • Load existing cache before generating ri. Ruby r27749 by NAKAMURA Usaku.

  • RDoc now handles BOM. Ruby r28062 by Nobuyoshi Nakada.

  • Use proper XML encoding for darkfish classpage. Ruby r28083 by NARUSE, Yui.

  • Fix ri output when special characters are inside html tags. Patch by Tomo Kazahaya, Ruby Bug #3512.

  • Don’t bother checking if the pager exists, it’s already done. Ruby r28842 by NAKAMURA Usaku.

  • RDoc::Parser::Ruby now ignores non-constant-named singleton classes. Ruby r29140 by Nobuyoshi Nakada. Ruby Bug #3759.

  • RDoc::Parser::Ruby call args no longer include assignment. Ruby r29141 by Nobuyoshi Nakada. Ruby Bug #3759

  • Handle $HOME being unset in ri. Ruby r29272 by Nobuyoshi Nakada.

  • uniq ancestors and modules too. Ruby r29312 by Nobuyoshi Nakada.

  • RDoc now knows about Encoding by default. Ruby r29356 by Nobuyoshi Nakada.

  • ri now defaults to the backspace formatter when piped. Use RI environment variable or options to override. Ruby r28455 by Yusuke Endoh.

  • __send__ and friends no longer get their underscores removed. Patch by Thierry Lambert.

  • The C parser now makes new public when promoting initialize.

  • Fix crash in markup_code for TkUnknownChar.

  • Fix crash in RDoc::Parser::C when aliasing methods with Regexp special characters.

  • Fix crash when various operators are used as a name as in alias * compose.

  • Fix warning with some dynamic use of attr_*

  • Methods added to true, false and nil are now documented.

  • Remove warning for methods defined on globals.

2.5.11 / 2010-08-20

• Minor Enhancements

  • Alias comments are now discovered by the C parser. Reported by Jeremy Evans.

  • Removed –all option which is unused in RDoc. Use the nodoc or stopdoc/startdoc directives to suppress documentation instead.

2.5.10 / 2010-08-17

• Minor Enhancements

  • Support rb_singleton_class(). Reported by Jeremy Evans.

  • Support rb_define_private_method() on rb_singleton_class(). Reported by Jeremy Evans.

• Bug Fixes

  • Treat non-ASCII RDoc files as text. Bug #28391 by Kouhei Sutou.

  • Fix potential test failures due to ivar collision. Bug #28390 by Kouhei Sutou.

  • Added duck-typed aref for RDoc::Attr to RDoc::AnyMethod. Bug #28375 by Erik Hollensbe

  • Fixed method references in HTML output when show_hash is false.

  • Fixed comments with ‘.’ in call-seq in C sources. Reported by Jeremy Evans.

  • RDoc now understands singleton aliases. Reported by Jeremy Evans.

2.5.9 / 2010-07-06

• Bug Fixes

  • Look up pager correctly.

  • Fixed handling of bullets in verbatim sections. Partial patch by Juha-Jarmo Heinonen.

2.5.8 / 2010-04-27

NOTE:

RDoc 2.5 did not save method parameters, so you should upgrade your rdoc-data gem to a version >= 2.5.3.

To have ri data for core and stdlib you’ll need to:

gem install rdoc-data

then run:

rdoc-data --install

To have ri data for you gems you’ll also need to run:

gem rdoc --all --overwrite

If you don’t want to rebuild the rdoc for `gem server`, add –no-rdoc.

• Bug Fixes

  • ri no longer complains about nonexistent pagers.

  • Fixed failing test

2.5.7 / 2010-04-22

• Minor Enhancements

  • Unrecognized RDoc directives can now be registered by a plugin for handling. See RDoc::Markup::PreProcess.

  • Added RDoc::Markup::Raw to allow other markup engines to dump raw content into RDoc.

• Bug Fixes

  • rdoc -p no longer means –pipe if files are also given.

  • RDoc now knows about BasicObject by default. Ruby Bug #1318 by Ambrus Zsbán

2.5.6 / 2010-04-22

• Minor Enhancements

  • Unrecognized RDoc directives are added as metadata to the object they get attached to.

    ##
    # :my_new_directive: my cool value

    Results in a ‘my_new_directive’ metadata key with value ‘my cool value’ on the RDoc::CodeObject it is for

• Bug Fixes

  • RDoc no longer prints out “invalid options:” when there were no invalid options.

  • Fixed link size on Darkfish file pages

2.5.5 / 2010-04-19

• 1 Minor Enhancement

  • Use binread in RDoc::Markup::PreProcess. Patch from ruby trunk.

• 3 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed indentation of method-description lists in Darkfish. Bug #28081 by Theresa Dwinnell.

  • Fixed loading RDoc::AnyMethod aliases to no longer infinitely loop. Bug #28107 by Sven Riedel

  • Fixed handling of ignored invalid options to continue after the invalid option.

2.5.4 / 2010-04-18

• 2 Minor Enhancements

  • Methods will now be cross-referenced when preceeded with ::. Ruby Bug #3169 by Marc-Andre Lafortune.

  • Methods now have human readable fragment identifiers for HTML output. (method-i-gsub vs #M000005). Ruby Bug #3023 by Marc-Andre Lafortune.

• 1 Bug Fixes

  • RDoc::Parser::Ruby now handles while begin a; b end # .... Ruby Bug #3160 by Yusuke Endoh.

2.5.3 / 2010-04-10

• 1 Minor Enhancement

  • RDoc::Parser::Simple and the include directive remove coding: comment from first line

• 2 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed loading of created.rid when regenerating documentation. Ruby bug #3121 by Yusuke Endoh.

  • Compare times as Integers as created.rid doesn’t store fractional times.

2.5.2 / 2010-04-09

• 1 Minor Enhancement

  • Imported various changes by Nobu from ruby trunk.

• 2 Bug Fixes

  • RDoc parses files without extensions as text files again.

  • RDoc::Parser::Ruby parses %{ strings correctly again.

2.5.1 / 2010-04-06

• 1 Minor Enhancement

  • RDoc::Parser::C now supports the include directive for classes and modules.

• 6 Bug Fixes

  • RDoc::AnyMethod params now get saved in ri data.

  • ri now displays method arguments correctly.

  • RDoc::Markup::Parser allows no space between = and header text like rdoc 2.4 and earlier.

  • RDoc::Parser::C’s “in” directive now looks in the current directory.

  • RDoc::Task’s rerdoc task no longer deletes the doc directory twice.

  • rdoc –force-update now works correctly. Patch by Nobu Nokada

2.5 / 2010-03-31

• 9 Major Enhancements

  • Darkfish now has a “Home” button

  • ri no longer displays the value of a constant. There’s no easy way to make them presentable. Use irb or ruby -e instead. Ruby Bug #549.

  • New ri data format now uses Marshal and pre-builds caches

    • No support for old ri data format, too hard to maintain

    • To upgrade your core ri documentation, install the rdoc-data gem and run rdoc-data

  • RDoc now displays how well you’ve documented your library

  • New recursive-descent parser for RDoc::Markup. See RDoc::Markup::Parser

  • Updated ruby_lex and ruby_token

  • Removed threading support, RDoc is not thread-safe

  • Removed many unsupported options to rdoc

  • Future versions of RDoc will not support Ruby 1.8.6. Bugs filed for 1.8.6-only issues will be (largely) rejected.

• 17 Minor Enhancements

  • Source Parsing

    • RDoc now supports module aliasing via constant assignment.

    • RDoc now tracks superclasses correctly. Fixes File < IO for core docs.

    • RDoc now ignores methods inside methods.

    • RDoc now ignores Marshal and other binray files.

    • Removed “Skipping require of dynamic string” warning.

    • C parser now handles Document-method better. Bug #27329.

    • API enhancements for writing parsers like the Ruby parser, see RDoc::Parser::RubyTools

  • ri

    • Uses pager over less and more for Debian. Ruby Bug #1171.

    • ri will use the RI_PAGER environment variable to find a pager.

    • ri data generator now supports SIGINFO (^T)

  • When rdoc is in debug mode, ^C now prints a backtrace

  • RDoc::Markup::AttributeManager no longer uses global state.

  • RDoc::RDoc no longer passes around options. Patch #27167.

  • Darkfish won’t generate a file if its template is missing. Patch #25857.

  • Improved some wording for the RDoc main page. Patch #27264, #27268.

  • Removed diagram generation support (to return in the future).

  • Removed external support for RDoc::Task.

• 12 Bug Fixes

  • The :attr: directives now use the name given to create an attribute. See RDoc::Parser::Ruby#parse_meta_attr.

  • Fix crossrefs on paths with ‘-’. Ruby Bug #883.

  • Fix ruby parser for alias with = in the name. Bug #27522.

  • Images are no longer executable. Bug #27156.

  • –op is no longer overridden by –ri. Bug #27054.

  • :method: now works when at the end of a class. Bug #26910.

  • Preserve elipsis from call-seq in Darkfish. Patch #26974.

  • Emacs-style coding: is handled properly. Patch #27388.

  • RDoc::RubyLex now parses UTF-8 identifiers. Bug #26946, #26947.

  • Fixed namespace lookup rules. Bug #26161.

  • Worked around bug in Selenium where they hide a .jar in a .txt file. Filed Selenium bug #27789.

  • Alias comments are no longer hidden. Reported by Adam Avilla.

2.4.3 / 2009-04-01

• 2 Bug Fixes

  • Corrected patch for file links

  • Corrected display of file popup

2.4.2 / 2009-03-25

• 2 Minor Enhancements

  • Added –pipe for turning RDoc on stdin into HTML

  • Added rdoc/task.rb containing a replacement for rake/rdoctask.rb. Use RDoc::Task now instead of Rake::RDocTask.

• 10 Bug Fixes

  • Writing the ri cache file to the proper directory. Bug #24459 by Lars Christensen.

  • Possible fix for Dir::[] and Pathname interaction on 1.9. Bug #24650 by tiburon.

  • Fixed scanning constants for if/end, etc. pairs. Bug #24609 by Ryan Davis.

  • Fixed private methods in the C parser. Bug #24599 by Aaron Patterson.

  • Fixed display of markup on RDoc main page. Bug #24168 by rhubarb.

  • Fixed display of \ character in documentation proceeding words. Bug #22112 by James Gray. See RDoc for details.

  • Fixed parsing and display of arg params for some corner cases. Bug #21113 by Csiszár Attila.

  • Fixed links in Files box. Patch #24403 by Eric Wong.

  • Toplevel methods now appear in Object. Bug #22677 by Ryan Davis.

  • Added back –promiscuous which didn’t do anything you cared about. Why did you enable it? Nobody looked at that page! Oh, it warns, too.

2.4.1 / 2009-02-26

• 1 Minor Enhancements

  • Added :attr:, :attr_reader:, :attr_writer:, :attr_accessor: directives. Replaces –accessor. See RDoc::Parser::Ruby for details.

• 3 Bug Fixes

  • Don’t complain when exiting normally. Bug by Matt Neuburg.

  • Restore –inline-source that warns

  • Fixed links to files in Darkfish output

2.4.0 / 2009-02-24

• 9 Minor Enhancements

  • `ri -f html` is now XHTML-happy

  • Clarified RDoc::Markup link syntax. Bug #23517 by Eric Armstrong.

  • Number of threads to parse with is now configurable

  • Darkfish can now use alternate templates from $LOAD_PATH via -T

  • Removed F95 parser in favor of the rdoc-f95 gem

  • Moved HTML and XML generators to unmaintained

    • No gem will be provided as it’s too difficult to make them work

    • Removed options –one-file, –style=, –inline-source, –promiscuous, –op-name

  • Removed support for –accessor, use regular documentation or the method directive instead. See RDoc::Parser::Ruby

  • Removed –ri-system as it is unused by Ruby’s makefiles

  • Added method list to index.html

• 6 Bug Fixes

  • nodoc’d classes no longer appear in the index. Bug #23751 by Clifford Heath.

  • Fix 1.9 compatibility issues. Bug #23815 by paddor.

  • Darkfish now respects –charset

  • RDoc no longer attempts to be lazy when building HTML. This is a workaround. Bug #23893 by Stefano Crocco.

  • RDoc doesn’t crash with def (blah).foo() end

  • RDoc doesn’t crash with define functions

2.3.0 / 2009-01-28

• 3 Major Enhancements

  • Michael Granger’s Darkfish generator is now the default for HTML output

  • Various rdoc generation speedups by Hongli Lai. Patches #22555, #22556, #22557, #22562, #22565.

  • rdoc/discover.rb files are loaded automatically from installed gems

• 8 Minor Enhancements

  • Added a space after the commas in ri class method lists. RubyForge enhancement #22182.

  • Improved ri –interactive

  • Generators can now override generated file locations

  • Moved unmaintained CHM generator to it’s own package

  • Moved unmaintained extra HTML templates to their own package

  • Removed experimental texinfo generator

  • Converted to minitest

  • Known classes and modules list outputs once per line now for grep

• 11 Bug Fixes

  • Fix missing superclass in ri output

  • Fix an RDoc crash when told to parse an empty file

  • Ignore nonexistent files instead of crashing

  • .txt and .rdoc files are always considered text. Patch #22897 by Aaron Patterson.

  • When merging ri data with a nonexistant directory, RDoc no longer crashes

  • Fix visibility of methods in XML output. Issue by Yehuda Katz.

  • Fixed relative link generation

  • Fix crash, RDoc now ignores comments above local variable assignments in modules

  • RDoc now only accepts adjacent comments for rb_define_module and rb_define_class

  • C file RDoc is no longer included in token stream

  • Scan all gem paths to match gem name for ri output

2.2.1 / 2008-09-24

This version provides some minor fixes and enhancements to 2.2.0 intended to polish RDoc for Ruby 1.9.1.

• 3 Minor Enhancements

  • Support for parsing RDoc from SWIG. Ruby patch #10742 by Gonzalo Garramuno, #13993 by Steven Jenkins.

  • Simple support for Perl POD documentation. Patch by Hugh Sasse.

  • Changed the default character set of RDoc’s output from iso-8859-1 to utf-8.

• 9 Bug Fixes

  • Explicitly set the html template’s text color, so that the generated documentation will display correctly on browsers with custom text and background color settings (patch by Luther Thompson).

  • Ensure that RDoc correctly will associate an alias and a method, even if it encounters the alias first because the alias lives in a different file.

  • Fix the parsing of multiline constants (patch by Chris Alfeld and Joel VanderWerf)

  • Make –exclude usuable. Ruby patch #11671 by Trans.

  • Detect inline C functions. Ruby Bug #11993 by Florian Frank.

  • Fix an issue in which RDoc might not document a class’ superclass correctly if the class was defined in multiple files and depending on the order in which RDoc processed the files. This should ensure that the child class -> parent class relationship is correct in ri documentation, allowing ri to lookup inherited methods (i.e., File.read).

  • Stop ri from crashing when it looks for a completely bogus method (i.e., File#reada). Now, ri exits with a helpful error message.

  • Fixed missing display of constant values in ri.

  • Fixed display of constants in ri’s html output.

2.2.0 / 2008-09-19

This version includes some significant enhancements to ri. See RI.txt for documentation about ri.

• 5 Major Enhancements

  • More extensive unit tests (special thanks to Chris Lowis for contributing a test).

  • Made ri twice as fast for the most common use case of displaying information for a class or a fully-qualified method (i.e., ri Array#flatten, after ri has created a cache the first time that it runs).

  • Made ri many times faster when searching for an unqualified method (i.e., ri read, again after the first such search has populated ri’s cache)

  • Changed ri to do regular expression searches for unqualified methods; now, a regular expression for a method can be passed to ri on the command-line.

  • Added an interactive mode to ri (patch by Daniel Choi). Now, when ri is given a -i argument, it will allow the user to disambiguate unqualified methods if more than one is present and also will allow a user to get information for a class’ method.

• 8 Minor Enhancements

  • RDoc now adds the package title to the web pages that it generates for files and classes/modules, which helps them appear better in search engine results.

  • RDoc now automatically generates cross-reference links for classes and methods specified relative to the global namespace (i.e., ::A::B::C#method).

  • All built-in templates now output valid, strict XHTML.

  • The documentation is slightly better organized (the markup details were merged into the RDoc module’s documentation).

  • Improved rdoc’s HTML generation speed by about 20% (on Windows, the boost seems larger).

  • Provided an ri command-line option to control its caching behavior.

  • Improved RDoc’s documentation. Added RI.txt to document ri.

  • Allow HTML templates distributed as gems to be loaded with the -T option, just like the standard templates in rdoc/generator/html (so an HTML template lib/new_template.rb in a gem can be used with rdoc -T new_template)

• 25 Bug fixes:

  • Fixed prototype detection in C parser. Can process ruby 1.8 C files again.

  • Fixed the main page for frameless template. Patch by Marcin Raczkowski.

  • Fixed the main page for frame templates. Now, if no main page is specified, RDoc will default to the README.

  • Fixed missing stylesheet in generated chm. Patch by Gordon Thiesfeld.

  • Fixed the parsing of module names starting with ‘::’. Patch by Giuseppe Bilotta.

  • Fixed a case where RDoc first would encounter Foo::Bar and then would encounter class Foo. Previously, RDoc erroneously would have considered that both a Foo class and a Foo module existed.

  • Fix a clase where RDoc would not generate correct cross-reference links to a class contained within a module of the same name (i.e. RDoc::RDoc)

  • Prevented RDoc from trying to parse binary files, which would produce garbage output.

  • RDoc now correctly converts ‘ characters to apostrophes, opening single quotes, and closing single quotes in most cases (smart single quotes).

  • RDoc now correctly converts “ characters to opening double quotes and and closing double quotes in most cases (smart double quotes).

  • © correctly is converted into the copyright symbol.

  • ‘&’ characters in text now correctly are translated to HTML character codes.

  • Fixed missing stylesheet in generated chm. Patch by Gordon Thiesfeld.

  • Fixed broken method links in the built-in templates.

  • RDoc properly links to files and classes in the one page HTML template.

  • The kilmer and hefss templates properly syntax highlight when inlining source code.

  • The kilmer and hefss template class pages properly display methods again.

  • Fixed broken class, file, and method links in the frameless template.

  • Fixed the clipping of source code in the html and frameless templates when the source code cannot fit into the window; a scrollbar now will allow all of the source code to be viewed.

  • Fixed the missing constant descriptions in the html and frameless templates.

  • Fixed the ri command-line options that customize the directories to be searched for documentation.

  • Fixed the XML generator. Patch by Anthony Durity.

  • Stopped the XML template from generating invalid XML due to malformed embedded ruby.

  • Adding missing information about a class’ constants to the XML template.

  • Fixed the horizontal rule markup (—) so that it correctly adds a horizontal rule rather than suppressing all text that follows.

2.1.0 / 2008-07-20

• 3 Major Enhancements:

  • RDoc now knows about meta-programmed methods, see RDoc::Parser::Ruby

  • Reorganized parsers under RDoc::Parser base class

  • ri now walks the ancestors of a class looking for a method e.g. ri File#read displays documentation for IO#read (may require regeneration of ri data)

• 5 Minor Enhancements:

  • Allow links to files

  • Default options now taken from RDOCOPT environment variable

  • Class method documentation can be found at toplevel now (def X.foo)

  • Allow HTML templates distributed as gems to be loaded with the -T option, just like the standard templates in rdoc/generator/html (so an HTML template lib/new_template.rb in a gem can be used with rdoc -T new_template)

  • `rdoc -v` prints out files, classes, modules and methods as it goes

• 11 Bug Fixes:

  • `ri Foo.bar` now looks for class methods also

  • Sections work in the default template again

  • Doesn’t warn about :foo

    list item being an unrecognized directive

  • RDoc no longer converts characters inside tt tags

  • Fixed “unitialized constant RDoc::Markup::ToHtml::HTML”

  • Fixed generation of relative links

  • Fixed various diagram generation issues

  • Fixed templates broken by switch to erb

  • Fixed issue with <!– –> style comments

  • Lowercase words are no longer rdoc’d as methods without leading #, as described in the documentation

  • RDoc now correctly sets superclasses if they were originally unknown

2.0.0 / 2008-04-10

• 3 Major Enhancements:

  • Renamespaced everything RDoc under the RDoc module.

  • New `ri` implementation.

    • Reads from a cache in ~/.ri/ for enhanced speed.

    • RubyGems aware, only searches latest gem versions.

  • Now up to over 100 tests and 200 assertions.

• 4 Minor Enhancements:

  • Switched to an ERb-based TemplatePage, see RDoc::TemplatePage.

  • Class/module ri now displays attribute and constant comments.

  • Cross-references can be disabled with a leading .

  • Relaxed parsing for some RDoc inline markup.

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