# Manuals.rubyonrails.com down AGAIN! **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [January 2, 2007, 2:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/manuals-rubyonrails-com-down-again/80952 "2007-01-02T14:39:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![quangn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quangn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quangn)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 2:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/manuals-rubyonrails-com-down-again/80952/1 "2007-01-02T14:39:37Z")
Anyone have any information on this? As others have said in past threads, I would be more than willing to host a mirror for the site. In fact, barring any copyright notices I find on the site, next time it’s up I’m going to rip it for my own personal benefit, and I may as well put it up as a mirror in static HTML format. Jason ---
**Author:** ![quangn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quangn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quangn)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 4:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/manuals-rubyonrails-com-down-again/80952/2 "2007-01-02T16:15:52Z")
On 1/2/07, Jason N. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > next time it’s > up I’m going to rip it for my own personal benefit You could build the docs from source if you don’t want to wait for the site to come back up. #1 - create a dummy rails project, e.g. “rails-1\_2-rc-apidoc” #2 - change directories, e.g. “cd rails-1\_2-rc-apidoc” #3 - check out the rails source into that project, e.g. “svn co [http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/branches/1-2-pre-release/](http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/branches/1-2-pre-release/) vendor/rails” #4 - generate the api docs, “rake doc:rerails” #5 - point your browser at doc/api/index.html If you prefer, use “stable” rather than the “1-2-pre-release” branch. Isak ---
**Author:** ![quangn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quangn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quangn)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/manuals-rubyonrails-com-down-again/80952/3 "2007-01-02T16:23:54Z")
Manuals are different than the API; the API docs are available at [http://api.rubyonrails.org/](http://api.rubyonrails.org/) but the manuals are…well…manuals. Narrative texts that explain how to do something such as routing or deployment. And again, I, too, can host or chip in to pay for a mirror. –Jeremy ---
**Author:** ![quangn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quangn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quangn)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 4:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/manuals-rubyonrails-com-down-again/80952/4 "2007-01-02T16:34:00Z")
On 1/2/07, Jeremy McAnally [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Manuals are different than the API; the API docs are available at > [http://api.rubyonrails.org/](http://api.rubyonrails.org/) but the manuals are…well…manuals. > Narrative texts that explain how to do something such as routing or > deployment. Of course. Time to call it a day, I guess… 🙂 Isak ---
**Author:** ![quangn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quangn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quangn)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/manuals-rubyonrails-com-down-again/80952/5 "2007-01-02T16:44:01Z")
Actually, I don’t really need any of the Rails manuals, specifically. What I was looking for last week was the Capistrano manual, which is not available anywhere else AFAIK. I don’t recall if there’s anything else on the site that I’ve needed recently, but the Capistrano thing was really really annoying.