# How can I contribute with http://api.rubyonrails.org/? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 22, 2009, 3:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-contribute-with-http-api-rubyonrails-org/170727 "2009-06-22T03:13:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ericfer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/96bed5/32.png) [@ericfer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericfer)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 3:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-contribute-with-http-api-rubyonrails-org/170727/1 "2009-06-22T03:13:24Z")
Hi everyone. I was looking for a helper definition (create\_table) and I’ve noticed that the documentation in [http://api.rubyonrails.org/](http://api.rubyonrails.org/) is incomplete. It’s not covering the “sexy migration” options to defining the columns like “t.string :name”. It’s just showing “t.column :name, :string” way. There is a note about this “sexy” way of create tables in [http://apidock.com/rails/ActiveRecord/ConnectionAdapters/SchemaStatements/create\_table](http://apidock.com/rails/ActiveRecord/ConnectionAdapters/SchemaStatements/create_table) Actually my question is: how can I contribute with updates and changes like that in [http://api.rubyonrails.org/](http://api.rubyonrails.org/) ? Thank you all !! ---
**Author:** ![ericfer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/96bed5/32.png) [@ericfer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericfer)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 3:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-contribute-with-http-api-rubyonrails-org/170727/2 "2009-06-22T03:49:10Z")
> Actually my question is: how can I contribute with updates and changes > like that inhttp://api.rubyonrails.org/? > > Thank you all !! The second example shows this: > **[ActiveRecord::Migration](https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Migration.html)** > > Active Record Migrations Migrations can manage the evolution of a schema used by several physical databases. ---
**Author:** ![ericfer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/96bed5/32.png) [@ericfer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericfer)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 3:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-contribute-with-http-api-rubyonrails-org/170727/3 "2009-06-22T03:53:52Z")
> Actually my question is: how can I contribute with updates and changes > like that inhttp://api.rubyonrails.org/? > > Thank you all !! BUT either way since that’s basically just the rdoc output, contributing to the documentation is the same as contributing to Rails itself (except you’re adding comments instead of code 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![ericfer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/96bed5/32.png) [@ericfer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericfer)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 9:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-contribute-with-http-api-rubyonrails-org/170727/4 "2009-06-22T09:36:27Z")
On Jun 22, 2:53 am, pharrington [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > Actually my question is: how can I contribute with updates and changes > > like that inhttp://api.rubyonrails.org/? > > > Thank you all !! > > BUT either way since that’s basically just the rdoc output, > contributing to the documentation is the same as contributing to Rails > itself (except you’re adding comments instead of code 🙂 ) True, but the docrails fork of rails ([http://wiki.github.com/lifo/](http://wiki.github.com/lifo/) docrails) is setup specifically for contributions to documentation (since the usual patch workflow is a bit overkill for just documentation changes). Fred ---
**Author:** ![ericfer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/96bed5/32.png) [@ericfer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericfer)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 4:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-contribute-with-http-api-rubyonrails-org/170727/5 "2009-06-24T04:01:29Z")
Hi pharrington !!! Thanks for your reply 🙂 It’s very true this is the doc that I was looking for. The unfortune is that when I look for “create\_table”, the link is this: [http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/ConnectionAdapters/SchemaStatements.html#M002191](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/ConnectionAdapters/SchemaStatements.html#M002191) Again, thanks a lot 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ericfer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/96bed5/32.png) [@ericfer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericfer)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 4:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-contribute-with-http-api-rubyonrails-org/170727/6 "2009-06-24T04:13:45Z")
Hi Frederick. Thanks very much for the tip about docrails 😉 On Jun 22, 4:35 am, Frederick C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)