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[Rails] Accessing Rails documentation from TextMate

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 comments

Jamie van Dyke
 

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

Exactly what I was googling for. Thanks!
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nat
 

Hey, thanks a lot!
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Paul Campbell
 

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