Know your rails better
Published over 5 years ago

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

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.