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Since Rails 3 is out, all the guides on http://guides.rubyonrails.org/ are for Rails 3. I used to reference the guides for 2.3 a lot. Is there anywhere they're still available?

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You can generate your own local copy.

http://wellrounded.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/rails-creating-a-local-copy-of-the-api-documentation/

jdl
This works for generating the API documentation, but not the guides (as far as I can tell. I just followed the instructions). It helped me on my way to finding a solution though. Thanks.
Nathan Hurst
+1  A: 

After following the instructions from jdl, I found a way to generate the guides. To do so, install RedCloth, create a project, freeze rails (2.3.2 was the highest I could get it to work for), and generate the guides.

sudo gem install -v4.1.1 RedCloth
rails RailsDoc
rake rails:freeze:edge RELEASE=2.3.2
rake doc:guides

The guides are located in doc/guides

Nathan Hurst
+8  A: 

Rails 2.3.8 guides can now be found here: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/v2.3.8/index.html

Sidane
***THANK YOU!*** It's all well and good to upgrade stuff, but really annoying to hide all the old documentation.
swilliams