Tom Copeland
1/16/2007 4:26:00 PM
> A lot of projects in RubyForge have no website, other than
> the "Hopefully coming soon..." message. Might I suggest that
> the site default to the RDoc of that gem (or gems)?
Yup, or have that in one of the tabs for each project.
> > Advantages:
> * Every project has a site letting you know what it does
> (sometimes there is next to no info on the project page).
> * Encourages developers to keep the RDoc up to date
> * The most common site that projects do have is simply their
> RDoc. So, we've removed one step for all of those projects.
>
> Disadvantages:
> * Requires a little processing on the rubyforge server (to extract the
> RDoc)
Is there any security aspect to this - does running RDoc on a gem
require installing it or executing any of the code in the gem? I
suppose it could be done on a different machine and uploaded to
RubyForge, though...
Yours,
Tom