RDocs for Local RubyGems In Your Browser

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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...

installed_gems.png

...but also provides quick and easy access to each gem's RDoc and home page:

local_rdocs.png

When you're done, hit Control-C in Terminal to stop the server.

::Published by Corey Ehmke on 02/26/2009 in Ruby on Rails / Guides Tips and Tutorials

Comments

Vesa Nieminen
Vesa Nieminen
04/06/2009
Bdoc 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
Corey Ehmke
04/07/2009
Thanks Vesa. I will check that out.
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