Bug #986: RDoc crashes while generating HTML after parsing a Ruby DSL. http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/986 Author: Hal Brodigan Status: Open, Priority: High Target version: Ruby 1.8.6 Reproducible Version: 1.8.6-p287 I maintain a SQL-Injection DSL written in Ruby. Recently RDoc began to crash when I would run the usual API documentation generation rake task. The source-code for this DSL, which causes RDoc to crash in the middle of generating HTML documentation, is located here: http://github.com/postmodern/ronin-sql/tree/master. $ git clone git://github.com/postmodern/ronin-sql.git $ cd ronin-sql $ rake --trace docs ... Generating HTML... /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/markup/simple_markup/fragments.rb:291: warning: Object#type is deprecated; use Object#class rake aborted! undefined method `level' for nil:NilClass /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/markup/simple_markup/fragments.rb:292:in `add_list_breaks' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/markup/simple_markup/fragments.rb:282:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/markup/simple_markup/fragments.rb:282:in `add_list_breaks' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/markup/simple_markup/fragments.rb:153:in `normalize' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/markup/simple_markup.rb:459:in `group_lines' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/markup/simple_markup.rb:255:in `convert' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/generators/html_generator.rb:246:in `markup' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/generators/html_generator.rb:818:in `value_hash' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/generators/html_generator.rb:865:in `write_on' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/generators/html_generator.rb:1293:in `gen_into' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/generators/html_generator.rb:1293:in `open' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/generators/html_generator.rb:1293:in `gen_into' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/generators/html_generator.rb:1289:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/generators/html_generator.rb:1289:in `gen_into' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/generators/html_generator.rb:1276:in `generate_html' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/generators/html_generator.rb:1197:in `generate' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/rdoc.rb:284:in `document' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake/rdoctask.rb:113:in `define' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:617:in `call' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:617:in `execute' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:612:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:612:in `execute' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:578:in `invoke_with_call_chain' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:242:in `synchronize' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:571:in `invoke_with_call_chain' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:588:in `invoke_prerequisites' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:585:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:585:in `invoke_prerequisites' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:577:in `invoke_with_call_chain' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:242:in `synchronize' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:571:in `invoke_with_call_chain' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:564:in `invoke' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:2019:in `invoke_task' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1997:in `top_level' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1997:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1997:in `top_level' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:2036:in `standard_exception_handling' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1991:in `top_level' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1970:in `run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:2036:in `standard_exception_handling' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1967:in `run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/bin/rake:31 /usr/bin/rake:19:in `load' /usr/bin/rake:19 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org