# Ruby Reference

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-reference/94389>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 3, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-reference/94389 "2006-05-03T18:56:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![coldtone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/9e8a1a/32.png) [@coldtone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/coldtone)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-reference/94389/1 "2006-05-03T18:56:41Z")

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Hello all,

What Ruby reference is everybodies favorite? When I’ve been looking  
around  
for documentation I haven’t found any that quite compares to [php.net](http://php.net)’s  
and  
[cppreference.com](http://cppreference.com)’s function references. I’ve been using the one found  
on  
rubycentral, but I think that it is missing quite a bit and doesn’t have  
very good examples. ri is fine, but can be a pain in the butt to  
navigate  
around. If there aren’t any really good ones out there would people be  
willing to contribute classes, methods and examples if I were to build  
one?

Rob

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**Author:** ![coldtone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/9e8a1a/32.png) [@coldtone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/coldtone)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-reference/94389/2 "2006-05-03T18:56:45Z")

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Rob M. wrote:

> were to build one?  
> [RDoc Documentation](http://www.ruby-doc.org/core) and /stdlib. It’s patchy in places, but  
> it’s a good aide memoire.

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**Author:** ![coldtone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/9e8a1a/32.png) [@coldtone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/coldtone)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 1:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-reference/94389/3 "2006-05-04T01:36:41Z")

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On Apr 30, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Rob M. wrote:

> What Ruby reference is everybodies favorite? When I’ve been  
> looking around for documentation I haven’t found any that quite  
> compares to [php.net](http://php.net)’s and [cppreference.com](http://cppreference.com)’s function references.  
> I’ve been using the one found on rubycentral, but I think that it  
> is missing quite a bit and doesn’t have very good examples. ri is  
> fine, but can be a pain in the butt to navigate around. If there  
> aren’t any really good ones out there would people be willing to  
> contribute classes, methods and examples if I were to build one?

ri -l | grep helps, especially if you’re running Rubygems from CVS  
and ruby from CVS’ 1.8 branch.

There’s also the quickref in addition to the other stuff mentioned:

> **[Ruby | zenspider.com | by ryan davis](https://www.zenspider.com/ruby/)**
>
> Ruby facts, opinions, source code, links, and stuff.

–  
Eric H. - removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid - [http://blog.segment7.net](http://blog.segment7.net)  
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**Author:** ![coldtone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/9e8a1a/32.png) [@coldtone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/coldtone)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 3:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-reference/94389/4 "2006-05-04T03:35:43Z")

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I’ve been using [gotAPI.com](http://gotAPI.com) recently. It’s a wrapper over the  
[ruby-doc.org](http://ruby-doc.org) site but also has wrappers for many other technologies  
(HTML, CSS, Javascript, and many more). Very handy.

Todd