Offline Documetntation

Rails
1

I tried to create local rails documentation in a new rails project
using:

$ rake doc:rails

And all I get is this:

$ rake doc:rails --trace
(in /home/byrnejb/Software/Development/testbed)
** Invoke doc:rails (first_time)
** Invoke doc/api/index.html (first_time)
** Invoke README (first_time, not_needed)
rake aborted!
Don’t know how to build task ‘vendor/rails/railties/CHANGELOG’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1472:in []' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:369:ininvoke_prerequisites’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1003:in each' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1003:insend’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1003:in each' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:368:ininvoke_prerequisites’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:361:in invoke' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/thread.rb:135:insynchronize’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:355:in invoke' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:369:ininvoke_prerequisites’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1003:in each' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1003:insend’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1003:in each' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:368:ininvoke_prerequisites’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:361:in invoke' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/thread.rb:135:insynchronize’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:355:in invoke' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1739:intop_level’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1739:in each' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1739:intop_level’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1761:in
standard_exception_handling' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1733:intop_level’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1711:in run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1761:instandard_exception_handling’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1708:in run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/bin/rake:7 /usr/bin/rake:16:inload’
/usr/bin/rake:16

There is no directory vendor/rails. Does this mean one must “freeze”
rails in order to generate documentation?

I tried getting local documentation via the gem_serer but all that does
is provide a nicely formatted external link to the Rails api website,
although its component parts (ActiveRecord, ActiveSupport, etc.) are
accessible locally through rdoc.

What must I do to get rake doc:rails to work?

Regards,

2

I tried to create local rails documentation in a new rails project
using:

There is no directory vendor/rails. Does this mean one must “freeze”
rails in order to generate documentation?

Hrm. Dunno. I’ve always had it in vendor and it’s worked…

What must I do to get rake doc:rails to work?

http://www.pjkh.com/~philip/rails/

Zip file of the 1.2.5 docs and of the 2.0 (pre-release as of oh, maybe
two
weeks ago).

Help yourself.

3

On Nov 2, 4:06 pm, Philip H. [email protected] wrote:

http://www.pjkh.com/~philip/rails/

Zip file of the 1.2.5 docs and of the 2.0 (pre-release as of oh, maybe two
weeks ago).

Help yourself.

Very fine. I vaguely remember blogs about .CHM and some Firefox
sidebar offline API doc files, as well.

4

Philip H. wrote:

Hrm. Dunno. I’ve always had it in vendor and it’s worked…

What must I do to get rake doc:rails to work?

http://www.pjkh.com/~philip/rails/

Zip file of the 1.2.5 docs and of the 2.0 (pre-release as of oh, maybe
two
weeks ago).

Help yourself.

Many thanks.