Searchable Rails API Docs?

rubyonrails-talk
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Is there a version of the Rails API anywhere that is searchable?

The RDoc dump at api.rubyonrails.org is spiffy and all, but it can very difficult to use productively under many scenarios IMO.

-- gw

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gotapi.com, railsmanual.org, http://caboo.se/doc.html

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I've always liked http://www.railsbrain.com

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Try http://www.railsapi.org. There is even a place to add comments.

Yes, api.rubyonrails.org is not real documentation. It isn't even API documentation, it's just Rdoc. Sometimes it gives enough information to write code, sometimes not.

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OK, thanks for the URLs. None are helping with my objective. They don't appear to search the actual contents of all those RDocs.

-- gw

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Get the chm version: http://delynnberry.com/projects/rails-chm-documentation

Then just open it on Winblows or use Chamonix on Mac (or a CHM viewer on Linux). Works extremely well for fulltext searches.

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

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– gw

Yeah, that’s an improvement. Thanks.

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for searchable docs, I like this alot

http://labs.parkerfox.co.uk/ruby.search/

--linoj