unable to generate local rdocs?

Currently if I do a gem fetch rails, gem unpack xxx.gem cd xxx rake rdoc

I get this:

Generating HTML... Could not find HTML template '../doc/template/horo'

and the doc file remains empty. Is this expected? Thank you. =r

By trial and error I had the impression that some Rakefiles have doc tasks that are obsolete or perhaps need something that is not in the repo.

For a single gem you can get something via the rdoc command.

Publishing the public API is the job of release.rb. The tasks involved there do work, as long as you have the Jamis template and an RDoc older than 2.4. We are working on bringing the API to RDoc 2.4, more to come about this.