Lars Pind

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[Rails] Accessing Rails documentation from TextMate

November 14, 2005 · See comments

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.

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  • 1 Jamie van Dyke // Apr 14, 2006 at 06:17 PM

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

  • 2 Jon Evans // Jun 30, 2006 at 05:19 PM

    Exactly what I was googling for. Thanks!

  • 3 nat // Nov 25, 2006 at 01:13 AM

    Hey, thanks a lot!

  • 4 Paul Campbell // Jul 28, 2007 at 07:11 PM

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