# Documentation for downloading and reading offline **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [August 7, 2006, 3:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/documentation-for-downloading-and-reading-offline/101698 "2006-08-07T15:43:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![noagenda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/8c91f0/32.png) [@noagenda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/noagenda)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 3:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/documentation-for-downloading-and-reading-offline/101698/1 "2006-08-07T15:43:27Z")
Is there anywhere that I can download the Ruby/Rails documentation & APIs so I can peruse it offline at leisure? I only have a dialup connection at home and going online all the time to access important documentation like that is a bit of a pain. ---
**Author:** ![noagenda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/8c91f0/32.png) [@noagenda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/noagenda)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 3:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/documentation-for-downloading-and-reading-offline/101698/2 "2006-08-07T15:57:33Z")
James M. wrote: > Is there anywhere that I can download the Ruby/Rails documentation & > APIs so I can peruse it offline at leisure? I only have a dialup > connection at home and going online all the time to access important > documentation like that is a bit of a pain. Go to the command line and type gem\_server - then, point your browser to [http://localhost:8808/](http://localhost:8808/) It should get you started… you can read the details about active\_record, etc. offline 🙂 Cheers Mohit. ---
**Author:** ![noagenda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/8c91f0/32.png) [@noagenda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/noagenda)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 4:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/documentation-for-downloading-and-reading-offline/101698/3 "2006-08-07T16:09:46Z")
Mohit S. wrote: > James M. wrote: > > > Is there anywhere that I can download the Ruby/Rails documentation & > > APIs so I can peruse it offline at leisure? I only have a dialup > > connection at home and going online all the time to access important > > documentation like that is a bit of a pain. > > Go to the command line and type gem\_server - then, point your browser to > [http://localhost:8808/](http://localhost:8808/) > It should get you started… you can read the details about > active\_record, etc. offline 🙂 > > Cheers > Mohit. Thanks. That’s a help, but it doesn’t give me everything. Rails is only available as www, not as rdoc, and there doesn’t appear to be any documentation for the core API in there. ---
**Author:** ![noagenda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/8c91f0/32.png) [@noagenda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/noagenda)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 4:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/documentation-for-downloading-and-reading-offline/101698/4 "2006-08-07T16:48:38Z")
You can download api docs in chm format here: [http://delynnberry.com/pages/rails-chm-documentation/](http://delynnberry.com/pages/rails-chm-documentation/) Hammed ---
**Author:** ![noagenda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/8c91f0/32.png) [@noagenda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/noagenda)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 9:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/documentation-for-downloading-and-reading-offline/101698/5 "2006-08-07T21:19:11Z")
get edge rails and “rake doc:rails”. you’ll find a little present in /your/app/doc/api/\* 2006/8/7, Hammed M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > > connection at home and going online all the time to access important > > * * * > > Rails mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) – Michael S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) [www.stellar-legends.de](http://www.stellar-legends.de) - Weltraum-Browsergame im Alpha-Stadium ---
**Author:** ![noagenda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/8c91f0/32.png) [@noagenda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/noagenda)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 6:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/documentation-for-downloading-and-reading-offline/101698/6 "2006-08-07T18:18:50Z")
On 8/7/06, James M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Thanks. That’s a help, but it doesn’t give me everything. Rails is only > available as www, not as rdoc, and there doesn’t appear to be any > documentation for the core API in there. You can download most any website with wget’s mirror option: wget -m -np [http://api.rubyonrails.com](http://api.rubyonrails.com)