# Ruby documentation browsing

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-documentation-browsing/82369>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 19, 2007, 4:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-documentation-browsing/82369 "2007-01-19T16:29:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![gmarik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/ecccb3/32.png) [@gmarik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gmarik)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 4:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-documentation-browsing/82369/1 "2007-01-19T16:29:50Z")

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Hi!

I’m new to ruby, and Ruby rox.

Being a new to Ruby i constantly look into documentation to get help  
and so on, but i don’t like the way i’m doing it now.

So for gems there’s gem server - well it works for me just enough.  
For the rest of documentation there’s ri.

But what’d like to have is something like gem\_server for core ruby  
documentation, as it’s more convenient for newcomers like me I think.  
Documentation can be browsed easily, instead of ‘guessing’(ri-like  
style)

So does anyone know something that “acts like gem\_server” 🙂 for core  
ruby docs?  
Thanks!

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**Author:** ![gmarik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/ecccb3/32.png) [@gmarik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gmarik)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 4:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-documentation-browsing/82369/2 "2007-01-19T16:30:08Z")

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On 1/13/07, gmarik [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> So does anyone know something that “acts like gem\_server” 🙂 for core  
> ruby docs?

You can view the rdoc here: [RDoc Documentation](http://ruby-doc.org/core/)  
Also, the reference in the back of Programming Ruby, 2nd Edition  
(Pickaxe) is great.

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**Author:** ![gmarik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/ecccb3/32.png) [@gmarik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gmarik)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 4:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-documentation-browsing/82369/3 "2007-01-19T16:30:19Z")

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On 1/14/07, gmarik [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> But what’d like to have is something like gem\_server for core ruby  
> documentation, as it’s more convenient for newcomers like me I think.  
> Documentation can be browsed easily, instead of ‘guessing’(ri-like  
> style)
> 
> So does anyone know something that “acts like gem\_server” 🙂 for core  
> ruby docs?  
> Thanks!

If you run RDoc on the ruby sources, you’ll most probably get what you  
can see on [RDoc Documentation](http://ruby-doc.org/core). Just generate the docs, and point your  
browser to the appropriate files.

(you’ll need to specify -od rdoc because doc is already taken)

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**Author:** ![gmarik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/ecccb3/32.png) [@gmarik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gmarik)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-documentation-browsing/82369/4 "2007-01-19T16:31:52Z")

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On Jan 13, 2007, at 6:15 PM, gmarik wrote:

> But what’d like to have is something like gem\_server for core ruby  
> documentation, as it’s more convenient for newcomers like me I think.  
> Documentation can be browsed easily, instead of ‘guessing’(ri-like  
> style)
> 
> So does anyone know something that “acts like gem\_server” 🙂 for core  
> ruby docs?  
> Thanks!

I like fxri: [http://rubyforge.org/projects/fxri/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/fxri/) It’s basically a GUI  
searchable interface to Ri with a builtin irb.