Yard graph with alternate db fails

[japgolly]

Similar to #580, yard graph --db <alternate-dir> doesn't work either.

Easily solved though. I'll submit 2 separate pull requests, one big-picture; one isolated. Choose whichever makes you happier. :)

Note though: I strongly dislike having Yard contribute two directories of purely generated data to my project root (.yardoc and doc). Other projects like to do the same and the end result is about 500 (possibly exaggerated) directories, some valuable, some transient - it all becomes very messy and strains minds and the housekeeping cost.
I therefore love that Yard supports me moving this stuff around - it just seems like the functionality hasn't been very well tested yet. THUSLY I'll likely be raising more issues around this so...
TL;DR I recommend my patch to Registry so that other pieces of Yard functionality I haven't come across yet but have a similar issue, have a chance of being fixed simultaneously.

[lsegal]

YARD doesn't generate doc unless you use yardoc and ask for HTML output (default, of course), so it's not actually generating two directories, just one.

[lsegal]

FYI approach #1 breaks the API because it changes behaviour; we can't do that. I'm pretty sure there are uses of .yardoc_file= that do not immediately load the database (like saving to a new db, for instance)

[japgolly]

No worries. Is approach 2 ok then? That or we keep Registry.load where it is and explicitly call it again after setting the new path?

[lsegal]

Yea loading afterwards seems like it should be fine. If it passes all tests I can merge.

[japgolly]

Sorry - the Ambiguity of the Internet strikes.
Do you mean you're happy with pull req #585? (all previously-passing tests continue to pass with it)

[lsegal]

Yes, #585 looks good as long as it's passing :) still have to test it on other environments though.

[japgolly]

Referencing #589 here for clarity when you look at the pull request.

[lsegal]

I have been pretty busy for the last month, but things are winding down. I'll have a change to check this over and put out a release this weekend.

[japgolly]

No worries. Pretty much the same story for me too :)