"gem install" on Windows can hit the path size limitation becuase of deeply nested modules about activerecord-sqlserver-adapter HOT 4 CLOSED

Whoa! I gotta say this is kind of confusing. How does a module namespace matter to a file path? Is this something specific to IronRuby has done under the hood? Would love to know a bit more. Especially since there are other crazy moudle namespaces in rails itslef that are as long as that. Does this only matter when a module namespace is converted to a file path via rails const_missing? If so, then the real solution would be to just put a require in a spot to work around this. Perhaps? Thoughts?

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I just saw the comment on this page.
http://github.com/rails-sqlserver/2000-2005-adapter/issues/issue/30

Perhaps this is an issue with ri/rdoc vs the adapter?

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You could argue that ri/rdoc should have some scheme for creating documentation for arbitrarily long module names. It would be simpler to change the long module name in sqlserver_adapter since the long name does not seem to be particularly required.

I am going to be working on other projects, and so will not be able to follow up on this bug. The rest of the IronRuby team could follow up if they desire. Thanks for taking a look.

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I'm a large fan of taking a bug to the source vs chasing down plugin/gem authors that may have long module names. I see on the documentation that IronRuby users are encouraged to use the --no-ri --no-rdoc because of this. I think there is value to bringing these issues up to the core rubygem/rdoc teams.

Ticket closed.

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