# Why isRailties not included in standard API doc distribution

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 29, 2007, 8:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-israilties-not-included-in-standard-api-doc-distribution/115883 "2007-09-29T20:48:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 29, 2007, 8:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-israilties-not-included-in-standard-api-doc-distribution/115883/1 "2007-09-29T20:48:09Z")

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I was Googling around the other day to figure something out and in my  
quest found this page:  
[http://edgedocs.planetargon.org/classes/Rails/Initializer.html](http://edgedocs.planetargon.org/classes/Rails/Initializer.html)

Hmmm, I thought, that isn’t included at [http://api.rubyonrails.org](http://api.rubyonrails.org).  
Why? I  
did a little further digging, but this was all I could find (from  
[http://glu.ttono.us/articles/2006/05/22/guide-environments-in-rails-1-1](http://glu.ttono.us/articles/2006/05/22/guide-environments-in-rails-1-1)  
):

Unfortunately, RailTies, the Rails library which defines  
generator behavior, intializer behavior, and the rails script  
itself isn’t included in the distributed API [docs]…

However, no explanation is provided.

Why isn’t it included in the distributed API docs? What is the proper  
way to gain visibility into those APIs?