[Locomotive-users] Documentation-enabled Bundle?

[Mark Fredrickson]

Hi James,

I think this is a great idea. I'm in the process of learning the ins
and outs of Locomotive (and dusting off my Obj-c skills), and this
idea has been on my hitlist for a while.

Would you like to coordinate adding this to Loco? You can email me off
list if you have the time and interest. You seem to know more about
how to generate rails docs than I do, and I can help with adding the
code to Loco. Do you think this is something we can do without having
to create new bundles?

Cheers,
-Mark


On 8/17/06, James A Baker <j-rails at mboro.org> wrote:
> I'm new to Ruby and Rails (and Locomotive too obviously) and apologize if I've
> missed something "obvious" to everyone here. I did do a quick search of this
> list archive and on Google and didn't see anything particularly relevant to my
> question.
>
> Has anyone considered making a bundle (or possibly an importable Locomotive
> app to download) which has all the Rails documentation generated and included?
> In a perfect world, there would also be a Cmd-D action in Locomotive which
> would launch the appropriate gem_server (or other solution??) and open the
> proper documentation URL in your browser.
>
> Personally, I'm just getting started with Rails, and have no idea what I'm
> doing. As an added problem, I have had to revert to dial-up at my new
> home-office (out in the country, out of range for DSL and cable sadly). So I
> can't just use the online documentation, as I would be doing had I started
> learning Rails 6-8 months ago. For me, not having Rails' documentation
> available offline is a real headache.
>
> Of course, there's almost certainly another solution available (which I'll
> likely find and use in the meantime -- such as wget from api.rubyonrails.org
> maybe)... but since Locomotive aims to "simplify" Rails on OS X, including a
> documentation option would be a VERY welcome move toward that goal.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -James
>
>
> P.S. Please reply to my email address too, if you could, even if that's not
> typical behavior with this group. Thanks a lot!
>
>
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