# How a rails project in netbean reference a ruby source code?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-a-rails-project-in-netbean-reference-a-ruby-source-code/150314>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 7, 2008, 7:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-a-rails-project-in-netbean-reference-a-ruby-source-code/150314 "2008-10-07T07:50:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![zhixin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/3be4f8/32.png) [@zhixin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/zhixin)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 7:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-a-rails-project-in-netbean-reference-a-ruby-source-code/150314/1 "2008-10-07T07:50:53Z")

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Ex. sometimes, I want to know the trace of a special method, then I  
track the code by the calling stack. but netbean stoped in the top of my  
code, I want to know what the rails source code do for my application.  
How can I do that?

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**Author:** ![zhixin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/3be4f8/32.png) [@zhixin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/zhixin)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 4:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-a-rails-project-in-netbean-reference-a-ruby-source-code/150314/2 "2008-10-07T16:10:01Z")

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On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 11:48 PM, zhixin [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Ex. sometimes, I want to know the trace of a special method, then I track  
> the code by the calling stack. but netbean stoped in the top of my code, I  
> want to know what the rails source code do for my application. How can I do  
> that?

[api.rubyonrails.org](http://api.rubyonrails.org)?

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