# Offline documentation for ruby on rails **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 30, 2009, 5:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/offline-documentation-for-ruby-on-rails/172966 "2009-07-30T17:21:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aashishkiran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@aashishkiran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aashishkiran)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 5:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/offline-documentation-for-ruby-on-rails/172966/1 "2009-07-30T17:21:17Z")
hi, can any one tell how to generate Offline documentation for ruby on rails on windows ---
**Author:** ![aashishkiran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@aashishkiran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aashishkiran)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 5:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/offline-documentation-for-ruby-on-rails/172966/2 "2009-07-30T17:28:07Z")
Aashish K. wrote: > hi, > can any one tell how to generate Offline documentation for ruby on > rails on windows Rake will do it for you – look at rake -T to see the appropriate tasks. [railsbrain.com](http://railsbrain.com) and [railsapi.com](http://railsapi.com) also offer downloadable versions of their Rails docs. ## Best, Marnen Laibow-Koser [http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org) removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![aashishkiran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@aashishkiran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aashishkiran)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 5:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/offline-documentation-for-ruby-on-rails/172966/3 "2009-07-30T17:34:29Z")
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Aashish Kiran[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > can any one tell how to generate Offline documentation for ruby on > rails on windows I don’t know about the “windows” part, but on my system it’s already there. Running “gem server” and going to [http://localhost:8808](http://localhost:8808) in a browser shows me the rdoc for all the installed gems, including Rails. ## HTH! Hassan S. ------------------------ removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid twitter: @hassan ---
**Author:** ![aashishkiran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@aashishkiran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aashishkiran)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 6:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/offline-documentation-for-ruby-on-rails/172966/4 "2009-07-30T18:40:39Z")
On Jul 30, 11:33 am, Hassan S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Aashish > > Kiran[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > can any one tell how to generate Offline documentation for ruby on > > rails on windows > > I don’t know about the “windows” part, but on my system it’s already > there. Running “gem server” and going tohttp://localhost:8808in a > browser shows me the rdoc for all the installed gems, including Rails. What I do is run rake doc:rails which creates the same docs as on [api.rubyonrails.org](http://api.rubyonrails.org) (ie all the frameworks on one page). Then I serve that locally and point the rdoc widget at it (so that I get search). Fred ---
**Author:** ![aashishkiran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@aashishkiran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aashishkiran)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 8:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/offline-documentation-for-ruby-on-rails/172966/5 "2009-07-30T20:28:26Z")
Hassan S. wrote: […] > I don’t know about the “windows” part, but on my system it’s already > there. Running “gem server” and going to [http://localhost:8808](http://localhost:8808) in a > browser shows me the rdoc for all the installed gems, including Rails. Really? On my system, Rails is one of the gems that does _not_ show an rdoc link when I do that. ## Best, Marnen Laibow-Koser [http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org) removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![aashishkiran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@aashishkiran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aashishkiran)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/offline-documentation-for-ruby-on-rails/172966/6 "2009-07-30T21:02:55Z")
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Marnen Laibow-Koser[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > there. Running “gem server” and going to [http://localhost:8808](http://localhost:8808) in a > > browser shows me the rdoc for all the installed gems, including Rails. > > Really? On my system, Rails is one of the gems that does _not_ show an > rdoc link when I do that. !suckimoto, you’re right – the rdoc link is inactive. Scratch that, then 🙂 – Hassan S. ------------------------ removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid twitter: @hassan ---
**Author:** ![aashishkiran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@aashishkiran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aashishkiran)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/offline-documentation-for-ruby-on-rails/172966/7 "2009-07-30T20:08:28Z")
> can any one tell how to generate Offline documentation for ruby on > rails on windows If you just want a copy of it and don’t want to genereate it yourself… [http://www.railsbrain.com/](http://www.railsbrain.com/) Be nice though and download a copy rather than use up their bandwidth… Pretty nice interface to searching that works in offline mode as well… -philip ---
**Author:** ![aashishkiran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@aashishkiran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aashishkiran)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 6:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/offline-documentation-for-ruby-on-rails/172966/8 "2009-07-31T06:48:17Z")
Frederick C. wrote: > On Jul 30, 11:33�am, Hassan S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > wrote: > What I do is run rake doc:rails which creates the same docs as on > [api.rubyonrails.org](http://api.rubyonrails.org) (ie all the frameworks on one page). Then I serve > that locally and point the rdoc widget at it (so that I get search). > > Fred where to run rake doc:rails ---
**Author:** ![aashishkiran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@aashishkiran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aashishkiran)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 1:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/offline-documentation-for-ruby-on-rails/172966/9 "2009-07-31T13:22:45Z")
On Jul 30, 3:01 pm, Hassan S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > That’s the slightly annoying thing - the rails gem is (mostly) just a stub that provides the rails executable, bit of bootstrapping and just depends on the main framework gems (activerecord, activeresource, activesupport etc…). Those frameworks do have rdoc. Fred