Ruby Parser In IRB 20th Anniversary...Now Let Time Resume

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Describes replacing a legacy pure-Ruby parser used by RDoc with the CRuby-backed standard library Ripper so documentation keeps up with language changes. Shows that RDoc fell three minor versions behind for visibility-on-def (Ruby 2.1 supported but RDoc only handled it in 2.4), explains Ripper returns comment tokens separately so comments aren’t lost, and demonstrates a working integration that cuts maintenance overhead and accepts new syntax immediately.

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1. 0:00Introduction and welcome
2. 10:22Ripper parser basics
3. 20:19Comment handling in Ripper
4. 22:13Future plans for Ripper
5. 26:28Ruby documentation with Ripper
6. 35:02Q&A session

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