# Documentation help

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/documentation-help/132483>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 20, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/documentation-help/132483 "2008-03-20T17:04:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![megax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@megax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/megax)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/documentation-help/132483/1 "2008-03-20T17:04:00Z")

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I’ve had rails create the documentation for my website but im not sure  
how to get it up in the browser, im using Webrick at the moment so I  
expect it to be dometing like [http://localhost:3000/doc/index.rhtml](http://localhost:3000/doc/index.rhtml) but  
that doesn’t work can anyone help me with this?.

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**Author:** ![megax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@megax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/megax)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/documentation-help/132483/2 "2008-03-20T17:07:19Z")

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You can just open the index.html in the doc/app/ folder. For example,  
if you’re on Mac OS X:

```
cd ~/my_project
open doc/app/index.html

```

…will pop it open in Safari. Optionally, you could move that folder  
into public/ and have it served out of your application.

–Jeremy

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Alan Red  
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> ## I’ve had rails create the documentation for my website but im not sure how to get it up in the browser, im using Webrick at the moment so I expect it to be dometing like [http://localhost:3000/doc/index.rhtml](http://localhost:3000/doc/index.rhtml) but that doesn’t work can anyone help me with this?.
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**Author:** ![megax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@megax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/megax)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/documentation-help/132483/3 "2008-03-20T17:07:58Z")

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Alan Red wrote:

> I’ve had rails create the documentation for my website but im not sure  
> how to get it up in the browser, im using Webrick at the moment so I  
> expect it to be dometing like [http://localhost:3000/doc/index.rhtml](http://localhost:3000/doc/index.rhtml) but  
> that doesn’t work can anyone help me with this?.

Try…

file://local/path/to/project/doc/index.rhtml

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