RDoc v3.7 Release Notes

Release Date: 2011-06-27 // almost 13 years ago
    • 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