[Rubygems-developers] --rdoc option does not have an effect

[Eric Hodel]

On 05 Jun 2005, at 12:09, Lothar Scholz wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I can't see any effect of the --rdoc option. It seems to be use it
> with
>
> gem install xml-simple --version 1.0.7 --rdoc
> gem install BlueCloth  --version 0.0.4 --rdoc

--rdoc is the default.  Specifying it is redundant.

> the first has no "s.has_rdoc" defined in the specifiction the  
> latter has
> "s.has_rdoc = nil". No matter what arguments, xml-simple is always
> installed without RDoc, BlueCloth always with RDoc. This does not make
> sense to me.

If a gem has no rdoc (xml-simple), rubygems can't suddenly make it  
appear.

I would look at the bluecloth gem, but rubyforge is currently down.

> --rdoc seems not to work but --no-rdoc does works as
> expected.

This is just the way OptionParser works:

$ cat x.rb
#!/usr/local/bin/ruby

require 'optparse'

OptionParser.new do |opts|
   opts.on("-r", "--[no-]rdoc", "Install rdoc") { |val| puts "val is:  
#{val}" }
end.parse!

$ ./x.rb --rdoc
val is: true
$ ./x.rb --no-rdoc
val is: false

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