http://www.slashdotdash.net/articles/2007/07/29/creating-your-own-rails-api-documentation en-us 40 Rolling on Rails <p>The second edition of the &#8220;Agile Web Development with Rails&#8221; book has the following tip for creating the Rails <span class="caps">API</span> docs from the latest gem version on your machine (or you could get the edge version by using <code>rake rails:freeze:edge</code>).</p> <pre> $ rails dummy_app $ cd dummy_app $ rake rails:freeze:gems $ echo &gt;vendor/rails/activesupport/README $ rake doc:rails </pre> <p>After it completes simply copy the <code>api</code> folder inside the <code>doc</code> directory (and then you can delete the <code>dummy_app</code>).</p> <p>Another related tip for those who haven&#8217;t yet discovered the site <a href="http://www.gotapi.com/rubyrails">gotapi.com</a> is a great reference with find-as-you type api searching.</p> Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:11:00 +0100 urn:uuid:b1ce2aed-26e3-4bf8-b0c0-f252bd6d556a ben@slashdotdash.net (Ben) http://www.slashdotdash.net/articles/2007/07/29/creating-your-own-rails-api-documentation Ruby on Rails <p>Another possibility for having the Rails API doc on your computer is simply to use the one that is already there. Since Rails is installed via a gem, you can youse the comand line program gem_server, that will start a Webrick on localhost:8808 with a reference to all RDocs for your locally installed gems, that include as well Rails.</p> Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:38:36 +0100 urn:uuid:0fa37c06-0fe1-41ee-94f7-d07b26cbbe61 http://www.slashdotdash.net/articles/2007/07/29/creating-your-own-rails-api-documentation#comment-117