Bug #549: ri -f html mungles constants

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: drbrain (Eric Hodel)
• Target version: 1.9.2
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2dev (2009-07-23 trunk 24250) [i386-darwin9.7.0]

[trans (Thomas Sawyer)]

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The example I'll use here is with Bacon. Regular output of 'ri Bacon' produces:

----------------------------------------------------------- Class: Bacon
Copyright (C) 2007, 2008 Christian Neukirchen
<purl.org/net/chneukirchen>

  Bacon is freely distributable under the terms of an MIT-style
  license. See COPYING or
  http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.

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Constants:

  VERSION:         "1.0"
  Counter:         Hash.new(0)
  ErrorLog:        ""
  Shared:          Hash.new { |_, name|     raise NameError, "no such
                   context: #{name.inspect}"
  RestrictName:    //  unless defined? RestrictName
  RestrictContext: //  unless defined? RestrictContext

Class methods:

  summary_on_exit

However if we do 'ri -f html Bacon' we get:

Class: Bacon

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Copyright (C) 2007, 2008 Christian Neukirchen <purl.org/net/chneukirchen>

Bacon is freely distributable under the terms of an MIT-style license. See COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.

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Constants:

"1.0"Hash.new(0)""Hash.new { |_, name| raise NameError, "no such context: #{name.inspect}"// unless defined? RestrictName// unless defined? RestrictContext

Class methods:

summary_on_exit

Notice that the constants are not displayed correctly.
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[ko1 (Koichi Sasada)]

• Assignee set to pragdave (Dave Thomas)

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[ko1 (Koichi Sasada)]

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who's ball?
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[pragdave (Dave Thomas)]

• Assignee changed from pragdave (Dave Thomas) to drbrain (Eric Hodel)

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Eric now maintains ri/rdoc

Dave
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[yugui (Yuki Sonoda)]

• Due date set to 11/25/2008
• Target version set to 1.9.1 Release Candidate

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[yugui (Yuki Sonoda)]

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I'll ask Eric whether it still happens.
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[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

• Priority changed from Normal to 3

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It does still happen, but this bug is not unique to 1.9. It should have been filed on the rdoc project on RubyForge.
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[yugui (Yuki Sonoda)]

• Due date changed from 11/25/2008 to 12/24/2008

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[yugui (Yuki Sonoda)]

• Due date deleted (12/24/2008)
• Priority changed from 3 to Normal
• Target version changed from 1.9.1 Release Candidate to 1.9.2

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[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

• ruby -v set to ruby 1.9.2dev (2009-07-23 trunk 24250) [i386-darwin9.7.0]

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I've removed constant values from ri output in RDoc trunk. irb or ruby -e should be used instead.
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[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

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Now checked in
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