RDoc v2.3.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2009-01-28 // over 15 years ago
    • 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 nonexistent 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