Searchable Rails API Docs?

Rails
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Is there a version of the Rails API anywhere that is searchable?

The RDoc dump at api.rubyonrails.org is spiffy and all, but it can
very difficult to use productively under many scenarios IMO.

– gw

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gotapi.com, railsmanual.org, http://caboo.se/doc.html

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Try http://www.railsapi.org. There is even a place to add comments.

Yes, api.rubyonrails.org is not real documentation. It isn’t even API
documentation, it’s just Rdoc. Sometimes it gives enough information
to write code, sometimes not.

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On Nov 4, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Greg W. wrote:

Is there a version of the Rails API anywhere that is searchable?

OK, thanks for the URLs. None are helping with my objective. They
don’t appear to search the actual contents of all those RDocs.

– gw

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I’ve always liked http://www.railsbrain.com

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On 04 Nov 2007, at 21:35, Greg W. wrote:

Is there a version of the Rails API anywhere that is searchable?

OK, thanks for the URLs. None are helping with my objective. They
don’t appear to search the actual contents of all those RDocs.

Get the chm version: http://delynnberry.com/projects/rails-chm-
documentation

Then just open it on Winblows or use Chamonix on Mac (or a CHM viewer
on Linux). Works extremely well for fulltext searches.

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

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On Nov 4, 2007, at 3:13 PM, Peter De Berdt wrote:

Then just open it on Winblows or use Chamonix on Mac (or a CHM
viewer on Linux). Works extremely well for fulltext searches.

Yeah, that’s an improvement. Thanks.

– gw

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for searchable docs, I like this alot

http://labs.parkerfox.co.uk/ruby.search/

–linoj