On Apr 19, 2010, at 20:53, Tomo Kazahaya wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Eric Hodel <drbrain / segment7.net> wrote:
>> I've seen no de-facto mapping in the community of Foo.bar to either Foo::bar or Foo#bar.
> 
> In Japanese Ruby community, it's likely that Foo.bar refers to Foo::bar, the class method.
> For instance, in Japanese Ruby Reference Manual (http://doc.okkez.net/192/view/ -- it's in Japanese, sorry),
> Foo.bar is the primary way to describe Foo::bar.
> 
> In addition, Foo.#bar is used to describe a module function bar of module Foo.

I will try to make RDoc's crossref support both class methods and instance methods sooner rather than later, hopefully for inclusion in 1.9.2.  (I need to focus on RubyGems.)