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RDocs for Local RubyGems In Your Browser
You can see what gems are installed on your local system using gem list in Terminal, but did you know that there's an even better way?
Try this instead: gem server
This starts a WEBrick instance running. Fire up the browser of your choice and navigate to localhost:8808. You'll see a page that not only shows a list of the gems that are installed...
...but also provides quick and easy access to each gem's RDoc and home page:
When you're done, hit Control-C in Terminal to stop the server.
Comments
Vesa Nieminen
April 6, 2009 at 10:50 PMBdoc is even better in my opinion (no need to run the server). http://manalang.com/archives/2009/03/29/introducing-bdoc-a-better-gem-doc-browser/
Corey Ehmke
April 7, 2009 at 4:26 AMThanks Vesa. I will check that out.
