Bug #20983: New `Ruby` module is linked to from all kinds of documentation pages

• Status: Open
• Assignee: rdoc
• Target version: -
• Backport: 3.1: DONTNEED, 3.2: DONTNEED, 3.3: DONTNEED, 3.4: DONTNEED

[Earlopain (Earlopain _)]

For example https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/index.html

• "Ruby" Documentation
• New to "Ruby"?
• "Ruby" interpreter
• Get invovled with the "Ruby" community
• Contribute to "Ruby"

Many other pages have a link to it as well, especially in headers it doesn't look very good.

The vast majority of cases will talk about Ruby the language, not Ruby the module. Is there maybe an option in rdoc to block autoreferences to a specific module? I think documentation will look much better without this link everywhere.

[st0012 (Stan Lo)]

I've reported this to the original issue too. I think the best solution is to enhance RDoc so not every module needs to be autolinked.

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Backport changed from 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN, 3.3: UNKNOWN, 3.4: UNKNOWN to 3.1: DONTNEED, 3.2: DONTNEED, 3.3: DONTNEED, 3.4: DONTNEED

Yes, it is an essential weak point of WiKi word system.

[st0012 (Stan Lo)]

• Assignee set to rdoc

[st0012 (Stan Lo)]

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/12491 should fix this issue.