[Rails] Accessing Rails documentation from TextMate

14 Nov

Some things are blatantly obvious, yet I somehow still manage to miss them. If you have, too, then here it is.

You look up Ruby and Rails documentation from within TextMate by simply placing the caret inside a word and hitting ^H. It works using ri, so you need to make sure that your Rails documentation is available to ri.

Mine wasn’t, so I added the following line to ~/.gemrc:

rdoc: --all -S -N --ri

Then finally I did a sudo gem rdoc --all, and all was bliss.

4 Responses to “[Rails] Accessing Rails documentation from TextMate”

  1. Jamie van Dyke 14. Nov, 2005 at 2:05 pm #

    Just what i needed, and something I overlooked also. Thanks for the snippet, Lars.

  2. Jon Evans 14. Nov, 2005 at 2:05 pm #

    Exactly what I was googling for. Thanks!

  3. nat 14. Nov, 2005 at 2:05 pm #

    Hey, thanks a lot!

  4. Paul Campbell 14. Nov, 2005 at 2:05 pm #

    This is going to be super useful for offline development. Thanks for the tip! (found via Google)