Allow templates to be specified outside the RDoc tree

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/branches/ruby_1_8@6008 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/lib/rdoc/generators/html_generator.rb b/lib/rdoc/generators/html_generator.rb
index 8db578b934..ca3019f5cc 100644
--- a/lib/rdoc/generators/html_generator.rb
+++ b/lib/rdoc/generators/html_generator.rb
@@ -1110,11 +1110,15 @@ module Generators
     private
 
     ##
-    # Load up the HTML template specified in the options
+    # Load up the HTML template specified in the options.
+    # If the template name contains a slash, use it literally
     #
     def load_html_template
-      template = File.join("rdoc/generators/template",
-                           @options.generator.key, @options.template)
+      template = @options.template
+      unless template =~ %r{/|\\}
+        template = File.join("rdoc/generators/template",
+                             @options.generator.key, template)
+      end
       require template
       extend RDoc::Page
     rescue LoadError