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zapnap / rdocinfo

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Auto-generate docs if they don't exist and have been requested #9

Closed zapnap closed 15 years ago

zapnap commented 15 years ago

Let's say a user hits /projects/zapnap/isbn_validation and that documentation doesn't exist. We could check the validity of the owner / project name pair via GitHub and, if a named project does exist, redirect them to the 'working' page while we pull down the goodies and generate (just like adding a new project).

Would mean we have instant docs for things that haven't already been indexed but have been directly requested. Just an idea... (submitted by technicalpickles)

zapnap commented 15 years ago

so i thought about this a bit and i don't like it because a GET should never affect server state. however, i've changed the default so that if you request a project doc that doesn't exist, it'll give you a new project page instead of a 404, with the form pre-filled and a notice. then all you need to do is hit 'submit' to generate the docs. 7b9a682