[TxMt] problem with rails documentation of "render".

[Niko Dittmann]

hi everybody.


when viewing the rails documentation (⌃H) for the "render" command,  
i get a screen telling me, there's multiple commands which contain  
"render".  when i click on "ActionController::Base#render", i get  
this error:

> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_formatter.rb:167:in  
> `display_flow_item': undefined method `join' for "Rendering an  
> action":String (NoMethodError)

with this trace:

> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_formatter.rb:211:in `display_flow'
> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_formatter.rb:210:in `each'
> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_formatter.rb:210:in `display_flow'
> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_display.rb:268:in `display_flow'
> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_display.rb:63:in  
> `display_method_info'
> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_display.rb:59:in `page'
> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_display.rb:59:in  
> `display_method_info'
> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_driver.rb:59:in  
> `report_method_stuff'
> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_driver.rb:115:in `get_info_for'
> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_driver.rb:135:in `process_args'
> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_driver.rb:134:in `each'
> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_driver.rb:134:in `process_args'
> from /usr/bin/ri:48

then follows the first part of the documentation for render:

> ------------------------------------------  
> ActionController::Base#render
>      render(options = nil, deprecated_status = nil, &block)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> --
>      Renders the content that will be returned to the browser as the
>      response body.

i wasn't able to reproduce this error with any other documentation,  
neither the other "render"-methods nor any other method.

it doesn't seem to be an issue with ri, as it just displays fine if i  
use ri from the commandline.  remarkably the first part of the  
documentation is displayed but the mainpart is missing (about 150  
lines).

it's not more than a slight annoyance, as i hardly need the docs for  
"render" any more :-).


regards, niko.

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niko dittmann <ni-di at web.de>
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