# Patch to allow "rake notes" to find "# - FIXME ..." in addition to "# FIXME ..." (for rdoc niceness)

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/patch-to-allow-rake-notes-to-find-fixme-in-addition-to-fixme-for-rdoc-niceness/118796>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 31, 2007, 1:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/patch-to-allow-rake-notes-to-find-fixme-in-addition-to-fixme-for-rdoc-niceness/118796 "2007-10-31T01:12:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![phallstrom](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/f475e1/32.png) [@phallstrom](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/phallstrom)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 1:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/patch-to-allow-rake-notes-to-find-fixme-in-addition-to-fixme-for-rdoc-niceness/118796/1 "2007-10-31T01:12:02Z")

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Howdy everyone -

They say they want votes of confidence (or excitement or something 🙂  
for  
patches these days. So I’ve got one… not super exciting, but there it  
is…

[http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/10037](http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/10037)

## Description:

Currently “rake notes” will search for the following patterns:

# FOO …

where “FOO” is one of the valid keywords. Without thinking about it  
however, I have been using it like this:

# - FOO …

# - FOO …

So that when I generate rdocs for my app these lines come through as a  
bulleted list, not jumbled together in one long line. But “rake notes”  
doesn’t find these.

The below patch fixes this and also allows for '# \* FOO" as that also is  
used by rdoc to make lists.

## (see the ticket url for the patch, it’s short, but gets line wrapped into ugliness)

So if you like it, give it an endorsement (+1).

Thanks -philip