# Where is the ActiveResource docs and tutorials?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/where-is-the-activeresource-docs-and-tutorials/85057>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 9, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/where-is-the-activeresource-docs-and-tutorials/85057 "2007-02-09T17:36:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adammontgomery)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/where-is-the-activeresource-docs-and-tutorials/85057/1 "2007-02-09T17:36:10Z")

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The only tutorail i have found is here:  
[http://www.eribium.org/?p=71](http://www.eribium.org/?p=71)  
Its quite nice but i would prefer a few more to get a broader  
understanding.

Also, i am unable to get the documentation. I ran rdoc to generate the  
documents but recieved an error saying that docs was already there and i  
had to specify the dir so i did. After rdoc running for a while i end up  
with a README\_FOR\_APP file???

Am i right in thinking that these generated docs will contain not only  
my app details but those for active record , active resource etc ??

As a final attempt i went to the caboose site which is sopposed to be  
for edge rails documentation updated from the trunk frequently??? I did  
a search for activeresource and found nothing.  
[http://caboo.se/doc.html](http://caboo.se/doc.html)

ActiveResource would be a great fit for an inter-app problem i have. It  
would be great to get some docs and tutorials.

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**Author:** ![adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adammontgomery)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/where-is-the-activeresource-docs-and-tutorials/85057/2 "2007-02-09T18:22:05Z")

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On 2/9/07, Adam M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> with a README\_FOR\_APP file???  
> ActiveResource would be a great fit for an inter-app problem i have. It  
> would be great to get some docs and tutorials.

cd vendor/rails/activeresource  
rake doc  
open doc/index.html # or however you open urls from the command line

Remember, ARes is still beta and unreleased. If you use it, you may  
want to be familiar with the source for it. Don’t worry it’s pretty  
simple. We’d appreciate the feedback and any help pushing for a real  
release.

Here’s another ARes tutorial BTW:  
[http://weblog.techno-weenie.net/2006/12/12/taking-ares-out-for-a-test-drive](http://weblog.techno-weenie.net/2006/12/12/taking-ares-out-for-a-test-drive)

–  
Rick O.  
[http://weblog.techno-weenie.net](http://weblog.techno-weenie.net)  
[http://mephistoblog.com](http://mephistoblog.com)

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**Author:** ![adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adammontgomery)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 7:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/where-is-the-activeresource-docs-and-tutorials/85057/3 "2007-02-09T19:37:15Z")

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Rick O. wrote:

> cd vendor/rails/activeresource  
> rake doc  
> open doc/index.html # or however you open urls from the command line

Hmm, I did this and just got:

mkdir -p doc

and that’s it… and there’s no docs in the doc directory. Running it  
again just outputs the (in /my/path…) and still no docs.

b

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**Author:** ![adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adammontgomery)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 11:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/where-is-the-activeresource-docs-and-tutorials/85057/4 "2007-02-09T23:44:58Z")

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On Feb 9, 1:35 pm, Ben M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> again just outputs the (in /my/path…) and still no docs.
> 
> b
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> > Remember, ARes is still beta and unreleased. If you use it, you may  
> > want to be familiar with the source for it. Don’t worry it’s pretty  
> > simple. We’d appreciate the feedback and any help pushing for a real  
> > release.
> 
> > Here’s another ARes tutorial BTW:  
> > [http://weblog.techno-weenie.net/2006/12/12/taking-ares-out-for-a-test](http://weblog.techno-weenie.net/2006/12/12/taking-ares-out-for-a-test)…

ActiveResource isn’t in 1.2.2. You will only have files in vendor/  
rails if you are have Edge frozen.

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**Author:** ![adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@adammontgomery](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adammontgomery)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/where-is-the-activeresource-docs-and-tutorials/85057/5 "2007-02-10T00:10:02Z")

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bryanl wrote:

> ActiveResource isn’t in 1.2.2. You will only have files in vendor/  
> rails if you are have Edge frozen.

So, is checking out rails trunk different from running freeze edge?

Now, I actually checked out trunk into a directory to just poke around  
in the code… then decided to play with it, so I generated an app  
around it. Maybe this somehow makes the rails app generated afterward  
not savvy that there be a copy of trunk in vendor rails?

b