Ruby documents to your local drive

(tags ruby, programming, documentation, install)

On Windows I've standardized on Ruby One-Click Installer 1.8.4-20 stable. (1.8.5-21 just showed up yesterday but this package takes a bit of time to stablize, eh?)

Then I start downloading documentation from ruby-doc.org, collected into convenient packages:

• Core API
• Standard API
• "Document Bundle":  A grab bag of interesting but somewhat out of date info.

I place these directories into my installed directory, for example: C:\App\ruby\doc\ruby. I then make a HTML file that points to the index.html inside of those local copies.

Other interesting docs:

• Rake: Using the Rake Build Language
• WxRuby

Then I start installing Gems:

• Rails
• SNMP
• Tar2RubyScript and RubyScript2Exe: Distributing Ruby Applications: Theory and Practice of Building, Packing and Distributing Ruby Applications

Then I make sure to run the RubyGems Rdoc server then edit that HTML file previously in order to navigate to it.

ri and fxri bomb on "Test::Unit", go figure.