# Rails Docs?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-docs/94960>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 3, 2005, 9:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-docs/94960 "2005-12-03T09:34:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![untz786](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@untz786](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/untz786)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 9:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-docs/94960/1 "2005-12-03T09:34:09Z")

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Hello again,

Where are the HTML based Rails docs? My OS X Tiger Unix prompt tells  
me that Rails is installed under:

/usr/local/

but I can’t find any of the docs anywhere?

Sincere regards,

Unnsse

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**Author:** ![untz786](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@untz786](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/untz786)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 10:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-docs/94960/2 "2005-12-03T10:47:22Z")

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Typically in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/doc/\*. Also online at http://  
[api.rubyonrails.com/](http://api.rubyonrails.com/)

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**Author:** ![untz786](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@untz786](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/untz786)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 11:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-docs/94960/3 "2005-12-03T11:11:55Z")

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James and Steve… Thanks for the response!

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**Author:** ![untz786](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@untz786](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/untz786)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 10:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-docs/94960/4 "2005-12-03T22:02:45Z")

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If you are on OSX/Tiger, the rdoc widget is quite convenient …  
[http://widgets.precisionis.com.au/](http://widgets.precisionis.com.au/)

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**Author:** ![untz786](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@untz786](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/untz786)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 6:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-docs/94960/5 "2005-12-03T18:53:52Z")

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Untz-

```
Also a great way to see the installed docs for gems that you have

```

installed is to run this command:

$ gem\_server

```
That will start a webrick server on port 8808 so after you run that

```

command go to your web browser and go to this address:

[http://localhost:8808](http://localhost:8808)

```
All of your gems that have docs will be listed and browseable right

```

there for you.

Cheers-

-EZra

On Dec 3, 2005, at 2:08 AM, untz wrote:

> > > Hello again,  
> > > Unnsse
> 
> * * *
> 
> Rails mailing list  
> removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
> [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails)

-Ezra Z.  
WebMaster  
Yakima Herald-Republic Newspaper  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
509-577-7732

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**Author:** ![untz786](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@untz786](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/untz786)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 10:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-docs/94960/6 "2005-12-03T10:47:21Z")

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The docs are actually in /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/docs, but you’ll  
probably want to serve them up locally using the ‘gem\_server’ command.

- james