# Need your help

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-your-help/112340>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 17, 2007, 6:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-your-help/112340 "2007-08-17T18:06:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Mr\_tony](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@Mr\_tony](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Mr_tony)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2007, 6:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-your-help/112340/1 "2007-08-17T18:06:09Z")

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hi all,  
in real i need your help. we are working on a project and we need to  
know the functions of the files in the ruby gems like  
app\_generator.rb, rails\_generator.rb, … etc so how can i get the  
functionality of these. is there any source or would anybody help with  
that? thanx a lot for your time

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**Author:** ![Mr\_tony](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@Mr\_tony](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Mr_tony)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2007, 6:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-your-help/112340/2 "2007-08-17T18:15:10Z")

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On Friday 17 August 2007 09:04:58 Mr\_tony wrote:

> hi all,  
> in real i need your help. we are working on a project and we need to  
> know the functions of the files in the ruby gems like  
> app\_generator.rb, rails\_generator.rb, … etc so how can i get the  
> functionality of these. is there any source or would anybody help with  
> that? thanx a lot for your time

If you are serious about developing then I would thoroughly recomend  
getting a  
book to get you going. There are many to choose from and I have about 10  
on  
my shelves for ruby/rails which is probably overkil!! Of these I would  
recomend Agile Web D. with Rails by Dave T. & David  
Hansson.

David

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**Author:** ![Mr\_tony](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@Mr\_tony](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Mr_tony)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2007, 6:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-your-help/112340/3 "2007-08-17T18:38:17Z")

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On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Mr\_tony wrote:

> hi all,  
> in real i need your help. we are working on a project and we need to  
> know the functions of the files in the ruby gems like  
> app\_generator.rb, rails\_generator.rb, … etc so how can i get the  
> functionality of these. is there any source or would anybody help with  
> that? thanx a lot for your time

As a supplement to the other answer about books, there is the  
gem\_server command, which sets up a web server on the machine  
pointing at the documentation for the gems you have installed.

Also make sure you have access to the ri command, which you get  
when you install docs for ruby at the ruby install time. (make  
install-doc)

```
    HTH
    Hugh
```