robe-doc/eldoc for all methods?

[Silex]

First of all, robe is AWESOME 👍

Now, I noticed that eldoc shows informations for stuffs like belongs_to and that robe-doc works for it. However, it doens't work for File.exists? and other basic methods, while the package yari has no problem accessing it.

Any idea?

[EDIT] ha, actually yari doesn't work for belongs_to... basically it seems one works where the other doesn't

[dgutov]

First of all, robe is AWESOME

Thanks. :)

However, it doens't work for File.exists? and other basic methods

We use the information that pry and pry-doc provide, the latter uses Yard to fetch docs for method defined in C. Most of the time it works, sometimes it doesn't, probably because it's not 100% compatible with the scanner RI uses. Make sure you have pry-doc installed, though.

They have some bugs related to the core methods documentation. In short, if you can enter Pry session and use show-doc to find the desired method's documentation but can't in Robe, that would be the bug in the latter. Otherwise, in the former. They do try to fix them, but lately it's been slow.

Some bugs I'm aware of:

pry/pry-doc#3
pry/pry-doc#15
pry/pry-doc#16

[dgutov]

actually yari doesn't work for belongs_to

It's the same for me, but that could be a problem with the activerecord gem installation (gem installed without the ri docs). This article indicates that ri works at least with some AR methods: http://danielchoi.com/software/ri-enhanced.html

[Silex]

This will be fixed by pry/pry#1136 and pry/pry-doc#17