Eric Hodel
4/1/2009 10:06:00 PM
On Apr 1, 2009, at 14:52, James Ponder wrote:
> RDoc::usage was removed from ruby at the beginning of 2008, and thus
> is not present in Ruby 1.9.1:
>
> Fri Jan 11 18:28:49 2008 Eric Hodel
> * lib/rdoc/usage.rb: Removed.
> * lib/getoptlong.rb: Update example to not use lib/rdoc/
> usage.rb.
>
> It was a very useful function that allowed documentation in rdoc
> format to be programmatically output. I've been using it for
> displaying extended information either after an OptionsParser help
> summary output or as a replacement when OptionsParser's output isn't
> suitable. It's also very useful for other information-display
> reasons where you want information in rdoc format to also be
> programmatically available to avoid duplication.
>
> It seems a shame that it has gone, especially as it is documented in
> the pickaxe book (second edition) and is widely deployed.
>
> What is a suitable replacement?
There's no reason you can't take rdoc/usage.rb from RDoc 1, modernize
it and release it as a gem.