How to generate HTML API doucment for ruby?

Ruby
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I googled the internet and didn’t find any clear instructions I can
follow.

Now the v1.8.6 is out and the place I go for ruby document at
http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/ does not have the updated API for v1.8.6.
I wonder if I can generate the similar document locally with my ruby
installation. Can someone give me a clear instruction on how to generate
it? For example, if my ruby is installed at c:\ruby (Windows platform),
what would be the command to generate the HTML API doc for the core
classes?

Thanks,

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On 5/9/07, Alan [email protected] wrote:

Thanks,

  1. the docs on the page you mentioned should be 1.8.6 (although the
    main page still says 1.8.5)

  2. you can generate them easily: go to c:\ruby\src\ruby-x.x.x\ and run
    rdoc -o rdoc
    (to prevent compliants about ‘doc’ dir already existing)

run rdoc -h for more tweaking possibilities. It’s even possible that
the docs are already generated somewhere…

Jano

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Alan wrote:

I googled the internet and didn’t find any clear instructions I can
follow.

Now the v1.8.6 is out and the place I go for ruby document at
RDoc Documentation does not have the updated API for v1.8.6.

Why do you say that?

As best I can tell, I have the 1.8.6 source docs served as the default
core API docs.

–
James B.

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You do but the Rubydoc front page (http://www.ruby-doc.org/) says
1.8.5 is the current release.

–Jeremy

On 5/9/07, James B. [email protected] wrote:

core API docs.

–
James B.

“Blanket statements are over-rated”

–
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Thanks for the help, I’ve successfully generated the html doc locally
with the rDoc tool.

As pointed out, I thought the doc at ruby-doc is still 1.8.5 because its
front page didn’t mention anything about 1.8.6. I am not sure how to
verify its version, as the included changelog file with my windows
installation didn’t say much about the core API changes from 1.8.5 ->
1.8.6. If there is a page that details this core API change that someone
know, could you please post it here?