# What the hell is happening with 'facets'

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-the-hell-is-happening-with-facets/99809>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 25, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-the-hell-is-happening-with-facets/99809 "2006-07-25T17:32:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![simonh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@simonh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/simonh)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-the-hell-is-happening-with-facets/99809/1 "2006-07-25T17:32:31Z")

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have a look at this link:

[http://rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/gems/](http://rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/gems/)

and have a look at facets. version 1.4.0 is about 355kb, version 1.4.1  
jumps up to 1000kb, version 1.4.2 is 590kb. it keeps growing (up and  
down) till version 1.4.5 (950kb). Then suddenly becomes version 1.7.0  
weighing in at less than 500kb.

Thank goodness I don’t use this library! Is it something started on  
April 1st maybe??

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**Author:** ![simonh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@simonh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/simonh)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-the-hell-is-happening-with-facets/99809/2 "2006-07-25T17:52:36Z")

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It’s just the RDocs.

They shouldn;t be in the pacakge, but sometimes they were included b/c  
I’ve been working on the system that packages it up.

T.

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**Author:** ![simonh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@simonh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/simonh)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 5:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-the-hell-is-happening-with-facets/99809/3 "2006-07-25T17:49:08Z")

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Simon H. wrote:

> April 1st maybe??  
> I was rather suprised when I noticed it too! 😉

Simple explination. I’ve been working on some major revisions to Reap  
which is used to package Facets. A bugs snuck in there a couple times  
that I did not catch until recently where it wasn’t excluding the  
generatated rdocs from the distributable package (the rdocs are  
generated for publication to the webpage). So that extra size is the  
just the rdocs (as big as they are!) and shouldn’t normally be there.

T.

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**Author:** ![simonh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@simonh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/simonh)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 10:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-the-hell-is-happening-with-facets/99809/4 "2006-07-25T22:52:25Z")

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That explains that Trans. Cheers.