Know your rails better 8

Posted by pratik
on Thursday, September 27

Burn/donate/throw away all your ruby/rails books

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lifo:~/Rails pratik$ ruby ~/Rails/rails/railties/bin/rails foobar
lifo:~/Rails pratik$ cd foobar
lifo:~/Rails/foobar pratik$ svn co http://dev.rubyonrails.com/svn/rails/trunk vendor/rails
lifo:~/Rails/foobar pratik$ cd vendor/rails/
lifo:~/Rails/foobar/vendor/rails pratik$ find . | grep .rb$ | xargs perl -pi -e 's/^\s*?#.*?$//'
lifo:~/Rails/foobar/vendor/rails pratik$ cd ../../
lifo:~/Rails/foobar pratik$ rake doc:rails
lifo:~/Rails/foobar pratik$ open doc/api/index.html

And you’ll know the difference in 15 days.

Have fun.

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  1. bryanl – September 27, 2007 @ 02:03 PM

    Piston1 is your friend. Find it. Learn it. Know it.

    1: http://piston.rubyforge.org/

  2. Pratik – September 27, 2007 @ 02:11 PM

    Yeah, except you can’t use piston unless your main project is under svn. I’m just talking about learning. Plus, I never really use piston for edge rails.

  3. Mislav – September 27, 2007 @ 03:12 PM

    Insane!

  4. schwabsauce – September 27, 2007 @ 08:01 PM

    it’s like das keyboard

  5. Dan Tripp – September 27, 2007 @ 08:41 PM

    WOO HOO! THANK YOU SO MUCH for posting this.

    I’ve tried to use “rake doc:rails” to generate offline documentation several times, but always get funky errors that I’ve never been able to decipher, and my web searches for a solution have proven infertile. This method, however, WORKED. I’m stoked! :)

    Since you don’t have a tip jar, I donated to Child’s Play instead. Thanks again Pratik!

  6. Tarmo – September 27, 2007 @ 11:29 PM

    git-svn fixed this bug ;)

  7. Mirec – October 02, 2007 @ 12:08 PM

    this is cool, is there a way to do this for ruby/gems/plugins at once?

  8. Pratik – January 12, 2008 @ 02:34 PM

    A minor modification to the regexp :

    

    find . | grep .rb$ | xargs perl -pi -e 's/^\s*?#[^\{].*?$//'
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