RDoc plain text docs with command to create an HTML table?

Ruby
1

Hi all,

for quite some time I’m trying to get RDoc to display an HTML table
populated with data provided by a ruby method without success. I have
been upgrading RDoc to 2.3.0.

The doc file is a plain text file (.rb), that should describe some
concepts (a la rails guides).

While I played around with using '#'or ‘=begin rdoc’ I neither find a
way to get my method that provides the data evaluated nor an HTML table
displayed. Is this possible at all?

Thanks in advance for any hints / references.

  • Bernd
2

On Jan 29, 2009, at 08:11 AM, Martin Bernd S. wrote:

way to get my method that provides the data evaluated nor an HTML
table
displayed. Is this possible at all?

Thanks in advance for any hints / references.

For a text file, a raw table is included straight up:

$ echo “

1 2
3 4
” > blah.txt
$ rdoc blah.txt
[…]
$ grep -A4 documentation doc/blah.txt.html

1 2
3 4

For a .rb file, this should do what you want:

$ cat blah.rb

1 2

3 4

class X
end

3

Hi Eric,

thanks a lot for your answer. Unfortunatly this still does not work for
me. I building the docs with rake doc:reapp, but the HTML is escaped.

The other thing that I can’t get to work is to call a method from within
the comment, that creates the data. Something like

bla bla bla…

DataDictionary.describe(‘campaigns’)

I’ll check later if the thing is working if I don’t use rake

Thanks again, have a nice weekend! - Bernd

4

On Jan 30, 2009, at 03:59 AM, Martin Bernd S. wrote:

thanks a lot for your answer. Unfortunatly this still does not work
for
me. I building the docs with rake doc:reapp, but the HTML is escaped.

Then don’t escape it.

The other thing that I can’t get to work is to call a method from
within
the comment, that creates the data. Something like

bla bla bla…

DataDictionary.describe(‘campaigns’)

This will never work. RDoc doesn’t run code from comments and never
will.