# Where's the best RDoc resource?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wheres-the-best-rdoc-resource/138460>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 23, 2008, 9:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wheres-the-best-rdoc-resource/138460 "2008-05-23T09:23:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![T\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e0b2c6/32.png) [@T\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/T_K)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 9:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wheres-the-best-rdoc-resource/138460/1 "2008-05-23T09:23:46Z")

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For Rails, I use  
[http://www.railsbrain.com/api/rails-2.0.2/doc/index.html](http://www.railsbrain.com/api/rails-2.0.2/doc/index.html) .  
Ajax-enhanced search system.

But is there any alternative in Ruby? What do you do in exploring  
RDoc? Do you use your mouse a lot?

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**Author:** ![T\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e0b2c6/32.png) [@T\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/T_K)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 1:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wheres-the-best-rdoc-resource/138460/2 "2008-05-23T13:08:32Z")

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Best resource is your local machine:

Run ‘gem\_server’ and open [http://localhost:8808/](http://localhost:8808/)

Alternatively you should find your rdoc html files for your gems (rails  
etc…)  
somewhere in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/doc … (see ‘gem environment  
GEM\_PATH’)

If you don’t want to use a mouse try ‘ri’ (e.g. ‘ri ActiveRecord::Base’)

Martin

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**Author:** ![T\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e0b2c6/32.png) [@T\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/T_K)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wheres-the-best-rdoc-resource/138460/3 "2008-05-23T13:41:34Z")

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On Friday 23 May 2008, Martin B. wrote:

> Best resource is your local machine:
> 
> Run ‘gem\_server’ and open [http://localhost:8808/](http://localhost:8808/)
> 
> Alternatively you should find your rdoc html files for your gems (rails  
> etc…) somewhere in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/doc … (see ‘gem environment  
> GEM\_PATH’)
> 
> If you don’t want to use a mouse try ‘ri’ (e.g. ‘ri ActiveRecord::Base’)

Or hetter, install fast-ri:

gem install fastri

Stefano