# Reading the api docs help **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 30, 2006, 3:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reading-the-api-docs-help/96648 "2006-06-30T15:24:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tripdragon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/a88e4f/32.png) [@tripdragon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tripdragon)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 3:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reading-the-api-docs-help/96648/1 "2006-06-30T15:24:02Z")
Ok so I am at a point that I read my entire book front to back and around and a around. And now digging through it again … But I am now missing a key piece to the clues is the api. I found [http://www.gotapi.com/index.html](http://www.gotapi.com/index.html) as a great search tool. But I can’t make heads or tails of it besides a basic search for exactly what I am looking for by word. But if I dont know the word I am plum out of luck… Is there some structure I shold know about that helps in searching through the documents there ? ---
**Author:** ![tripdragon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/a88e4f/32.png) [@tripdragon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tripdragon)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 3:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reading-the-api-docs-help/96648/2 "2006-06-30T15:34:19Z")
trip dragon wrote: > through the documents there ? Try [api.rubyonrails.com](http://api.rubyonrails.com) and [RDoc Documentation](http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/) ---
**Author:** ![tripdragon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/a88e4f/32.png) [@tripdragon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tripdragon)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 4:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reading-the-api-docs-help/96648/3 "2006-06-30T16:10:17Z")
Matt Heagney wrote: > trip dragon wrote: > > > through the documents there ? > > Try [api.rubyonrails.com](http://api.rubyonrails.com) and [RDoc Documentation](http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/) OOO! Sweet! this looks and reads like the authors care… Many thanks ---
**Author:** ![tripdragon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/a88e4f/32.png) [@tripdragon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tripdragon)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 6:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reading-the-api-docs-help/96648/4 "2006-06-30T18:03:38Z")
trip dragon wrote: > Matt Heagney wrote: > > > trip dragon wrote: > > > > > through the documents there ? > > > > Try [api.rubyonrails.com](http://api.rubyonrails.com) and [RDoc Documentation](http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/) > > OOO! Sweet! this looks and reads like the authors care… Many thanks hmmm that is only ruby though ---
**Author:** ![tripdragon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/a88e4f/32.png) [@tripdragon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tripdragon)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reading-the-api-docs-help/96648/5 "2006-06-30T18:46:43Z")
Rails is here: [http://api.rubyonrails.org/](http://api.rubyonrails.org/) On 6/30/06, trip dragon [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > – > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > * * * > > Rails mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) – ---
**Author:** ![tripdragon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/a88e4f/32.png) [@tripdragon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tripdragon)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 6:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reading-the-api-docs-help/96648/6 "2006-06-30T18:50:17Z")
Oh yeah… And rdoc api info for most things you install goes to: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/doc or if you installed with port /opt/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/doc On 6/30/06, Jon Gretar B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > > > ## – > > Jon Gretar B. > [http://www.jongretar.net/](http://www.jongretar.net/) –