# RDoc Note Extractor

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rdoc-note-extractor/139171>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 31, 2008, 11:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rdoc-note-extractor/139171 "2008-05-31T23:19:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Trans)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 11:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rdoc-note-extractor/139171/1 "2008-05-31T23:19:14Z")

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Can we add developer note extraction to RDoc? I.e. the ability to  
extract TODO:, FIXME: and other labels from comments and list them in  
html or xml file?

I know there are some solutions floating around in ruby-space already.  
I was just thinking it would be nice if RDoc had this capability built-  
in.

T.

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**Author:** ![Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Trans)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 7:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rdoc-note-extractor/139171/2 "2008-06-05T07:10:51Z")

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On May 31, 2008, at 14:16 PM, Trans wrote:

> Can we add developer note extraction to RDoc? I.e. the ability to  
> extract TODO:, FIXME: and other labels from comments and list them in  
> html or xml file?
> 
> I know there are some solutions floating around in ruby-space already.  
> I was just thinking it would be nice if RDoc had this capability  
> built-  
> in.

RDoc seems like a very heavyweight tool for something that could be  
accomplished faster and simpler with grep (or similar). But you’re  
welcome to place a feature request or patch on the RDoc tracker:

[http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=2475&group\_id=627&func=browse](http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=2475&group_id=627&func=browse)