On Dec 1, 4:25 pm, Chad Woolley <thewoolley...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Trans <transf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The other option is to just present an error page saying why > > the rdocs could not be generated and what can be done about it. > > If they need sudo access to install the rdoc, won't they also need it > to install the gem files? And doesn't that just fail now with a write > permission error? Why can't rdoc behave the same way, or is there > something else to consider?
Yes, I think you are right. So, I made a nice error page that explains. I just made a pull request for the patch. If you want to try it out, gem install some package with the --no-rdoc option, clone my repo (trans/rubygems) and run `ruby -Ilib bin/gem server`, find the gem and click on the rdoc link. _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems Rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers