# Ruby on rails API website suggestion

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-api-website-suggestion/156727>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 2, 2009, 12:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-api-website-suggestion/156727 "2009-01-02T00:35:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Marco\_Rodrigues](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@Marco\_Rodrigues](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Marco_Rodrigues)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 12:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-api-website-suggestion/156727/1 "2009-01-02T00:35:09Z")

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I would like to request a feature… like:  
[http://rubyonrails.org/function](http://rubyonrails.org/function)  
and it  
will search inside [http://api.rubyonrails.org](http://api.rubyonrails.org) for the function and  
show it.

Like PHP has… [PHP: basename - Manual](http://php.net/basename)

Example: [http://rubyonrails.org/truncate](http://rubyonrails.org/truncate) and it will points to  
[ActionView::Helpers::TextHelper](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper.html#M001541)

That woul be cool.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Marco\_Rodrigues](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@Marco\_Rodrigues](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Marco_Rodrigues)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 1:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-api-website-suggestion/156727/2 "2009-01-02T01:39:29Z")

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On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 15:23 -0800, Marco Rodrigues wrote:

> That woul be cool.

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[http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=rails](http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=rails)

Craig

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**Author:** ![Marco\_Rodrigues](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@Marco\_Rodrigues](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Marco_Rodrigues)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 6:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-api-website-suggestion/156727/3 "2009-01-16T18:57:22Z")

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On 2 Jan, 00:37, Craig W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> > That woul be cool.
> 
> ----[http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=rails](http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=rails)

But for that you need google to update the index and it’s not precise,  
don’t show you the exact line…