On Jul 5, 2011, at 4:29 PM, Aaron Patterson wrote:
> Eric proposed a workaround of always shipping an empty directory, but I don't
> think that is a good long term solution.  It requires that gem packagers
> to know that rdoc behaves in a certain way when provided with a
> directory that doesn't exist, and to ship an empty directory to avoid
> that warning.
> 
> Instead, I would rather see this validation removed so that I can
> specify an empty list of require paths and avoid this warning.
> 
> I've put together a patch, but I'm not sure that it's complete.  Without
> applying the patch, I get errors running 1.8.7.  The errors and failures
> do not seem to increase after applying my patch, but I cannot be sure
> I've not broken something.
> 
>  https://gist.github.com/1065473

I think the lack of a require path should be a warning instead of an error.  
Most people won't want to use this feature.

I don't think the errors are your fault.
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