# Handcar on Rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/handcar-on-rails/51227>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 28, 2005, 3:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/handcar-on-rails/51227 "2005-12-28T15:58:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![codeblogger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@codeblogger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/codeblogger)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 3:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/handcar-on-rails/51227/1 "2005-12-28T15:58:43Z")

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Dear Friends of Rails, I would like to make a suggestion:

There are two famous (German) projects out there: SelfHTML [1] and  
SelfPHP [2], which are some kind of on- and offline (!) documentations.  
They contain a nearly complete reference and some tutorials.

Is anyone interested in helping me to build something similar for Rails?

I just have some ideas (like the name and the domain: [handcar.de](http://handcar.de)), so  
any help will be appreciated.

With kind regards

Nicolai Reuschling

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[1] [http://selfhtml.org/](http://selfhtml.org/)  
[2] [http://www.selfphp.de/](http://www.selfphp.de/)

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**Author:** ![codeblogger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@codeblogger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/codeblogger)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 4:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/handcar-on-rails/51227/2 "2005-12-28T16:01:46Z")

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Codeblogger wrote:

> There are two famous (German) projects out there: SelfHTML [1] and  
> SelfPHP [2], which are some kind of on- and offline (!) documentations.  
> They contain a nearly complete reference and some tutorials.

Nicolai,

If I understand you correctly, I think devboi already does this, online  
and offline for Ruby on Rails (firefox anyway):

[http://devboi.mozdev.org](http://devboi.mozdev.org)

Tracy

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**Author:** ![codeblogger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@codeblogger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/codeblogger)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 4:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/handcar-on-rails/51227/3 "2005-12-28T16:16:47Z")

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> Nicolai,
> 
> If I understand you correctly, I think devboi already does this, online  
> and offline for Ruby on Rails (firefox anyway):
> 
> [http://devboi.mozdev.org](http://devboi.mozdev.org)
> 
> Tracy

Tracy,

thanks for the link. I wasn’t aware of that Firefox plugin.  
It looks pretty neat, but isn’t this just a link collection to online  
documents. I had a solution in mind, having all the files offline in  
HTML files. Anyway I will have a second look at it.

Nicolai

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**Author:** ![codeblogger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@codeblogger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/codeblogger)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 5:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/handcar-on-rails/51227/4 "2005-12-28T17:08:14Z")

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I just installed devboi and it’s fairly nice. It has CSS/HTML docs too  
which is a great bonus. As for offline capability, notice that there  
are 2 separate downloads - one for online, one for offline. You also  
need to install Rails support separately.

One thing that’s missing (AFAIK), is search. Often I know a section of  
the name of something I need, but not what class it’s in. The FF search  
seems to ignore the devboi frame, even when it has focus.

On Wednesday, December 28, 2005, at 4:16 PM, Codeblogger wrote:

> thanks for the link. I wasn’t aware of that Firefox plugin.  
> It looks pretty neat, but isn’t this just a link collection to online  
> documents. I had a solution in mind, having all the files offline in  
> HTML files. Anyway I will have a second look at it.
> 
> Nicolai
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–Dave.