Thanks, Ryan,

require 'rdoc/markup/simple_markup/to_flow'

does it, no munging needed.   Now if you can tell me how to setup the
current release of cygwin on a win box to build mozilla you'll have
totally made my day.  In the meantime, running a find script to zap
all the 13s out of each .sh file seems to be the way to go.  Right,
wrong newsgroup...

- Eric

This seems wrong though.  I want to load a set of YAML descriptions
I didn't write, and I need to know all possible subtypes
Ryan Davis wrote:
> On Oct 31, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Eric Promislow wrote:
>
> > If I run <<ri Abbrev>>, no problem.
> >
> > But with this code:
> >
> > ##########
> > require 'yaml'
> > require 'pp'
> >
> > class RiFinder
> >   def initialize(sysdir)
> >     @sysdir = sysdir
> >   end
> >
> >   def get_class_info(clsName, info)
> >     clsFile = "#{@sysdir}/#{clsName}/cdesc-#{clsName}.yaml"
> >     puts "About to yaml <<#{clsFile}>>"
> >     clsInfo = File.open(clsFile) { |io| YAML.load(io) }
> >     pp clsInfo
> >   end
> > end
> >
> > rifinder = RiFinder.new("c:/ruby/share/ri/1.8/system", nil, nil)
> > rifinder.get_class_info("Abbrev", nil)
>
> Because you need to load/define all the classes it is trying to
> deserialize. yaml doesn't know where they are. Just pop in the
> appropriate requires up top and get rid of your munger.
>
> FWIW, I went the munging route for risearch and for that matter...
> you seem to be writing much of the same sort of thing. Check my blog
> for the code. I'll release it to seattlerb sooner or later.