RDoc formatter hardcoded to darkfish for RubyGems

It seems that RDoc is not currently designed to allow a custom formatter when running gem rdoc. Even when using .gemrc and setting the --format option to a custom formatter (like horo) seems to not work. In fact, in the latest version of RDoc (6.0.4), any attempt to use a custom formatter via .gemrc causes a crash:

$ gem rdoc --rdoc --overwrite rake
Parsing documentation for rake-12.3.1
Installing ri documentation for rake-12.3.1
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (TypeError)
    no implicit conversion of nil into String

My .gemrc file:

rdoc: -f horo

I traced the TypeError exception to here: https://github.com/ruby/rdoc/blob/master/lib/rdoc/generator/darkfish.rb#L167

Thanks in advance.

Start with the failure reported at lib/rdoc/generator/darkfish.rb line 167 and reproduce it by running gem rdoc --rdoc --overwrite rake with .gemrc configured as rdoc: -f horo. Trace how the custom formatter option reaches RDoc, then verify that gem rdoc accepts the formatter without the reported TypeError and uses the requested formatter.