# Rake doc:plugins

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-doc-plugins/134287>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 9, 2008, 3:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-doc-plugins/134287 "2008-04-09T15:21:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![shikha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@shikha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shikha)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 3:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-doc-plugins/134287/1 "2008-04-09T15:21:35Z")

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When I executed the command – rake doc:plugins

Rdoc –o doc/plugins/rspec –title

…

…

…

vendor/plugins/rspec/lib/spec.rb vendor/plugins/rspec/README

Rake aborted!

You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it!

The error occurred while evaluating nil.exitstatus

This error was there. Please send me the solution of this problem.

Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![shikha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@shikha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shikha)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 7:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-doc-plugins/134287/2 "2008-04-09T19:03:40Z")

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Shikha S. wrote:

> When I executed the command – rake doc:plugins
> 
> Rdoc –o doc/plugins/rspec –title
> 
> …
> 
> …
> 
> …
> 
> vendor/plugins/rspec/lib/spec.rb vendor/plugins/rspec/README
> 
> Rake aborted!
> 
> You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it!
> 
> The error occurred while evaluating nil.exitstatus
> 
> This error was there. Please send me the solution of this problem.

That looks like an error in RSpec specifically. I don’t have a  
ready-made fix, but if you’re keen on generating the documentation for  
that plugin I suggest looking at spec.rb, as pointed to in the error  
message.

The rdoc for RSpec is also available online:  
[http://rspec.rubyforge.org/rdoc/index.html](http://rspec.rubyforge.org/rdoc/index.html)

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**Author:** ![shikha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@shikha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shikha)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 7:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-doc-plugins/134287/3 "2008-04-10T07:14:07Z")

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Ya again I tried to install rspec and it was successfully installed as  
before but still the problem is there.

> That looks like an error in RSpec specifically. I don’t have a  
> ready-made fix, but if you’re keen on generating the documentation for  
> that plugin I suggest looking at spec.rb, as pointed to in the error  
> message.
> 
> The rdoc for RSpec is also available online:  
> [http://rspec.rubyforge.org/rdoc/index.html](http://rspec.rubyforge.org/rdoc/index.html)