RDoc index for your Gems

February 13th 2009

I just posted a tiny script on gist.github.com I wrote recently for usage on my dev machine that will create a HTML index for your locally installed RubyGems because I got really tired of having to browse through extraordinarily long paths to get to that local RDoc for ActiveRecord 2.0.2.

Just generate the index with the script, bookmark the index.html file in the output directory and get immediate access to your local RDocs. You might also want to put the script into a cron job for automatic updating.

Here's a screenshot of the index in action on my machine:

local gem rdoc index thumb

The code is certainly not beautiful or anything, but it works for me and hopefully for you too!

Get the thing here: Local RDoc Index Generator

Written by Christoph Olszowka