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Easiest way to "goto source code" for Ruby/Rails

Answer 1

+1 A:

I clone the rails repository

git clone git://github.com/rails/rails.git

after I grep on it

git grep 'form_for'

After my Vim editor help my with Ctags to navigate on source code.

If you want some example of code using you can see test unit.

shingara 2010-10-20 12:17:37

you can also generate a tag file from your gems. I use rtags and this bash command to index the gems of my Gemfile + the current project + rails: rtags --vi -R . `ruby -e 'dirs=%x(gem dependency rails).map{|l| %x(gem which #{$1}) if l.match(/^\s+(\w+)/)}; dirs+= %x(rake gems).map{|l| %x(gem which #{$2}) if l.match(/\[(I|F|R)\] (\w+)/)}; puts dirs.uniq.compact.map{|d| File.dirname d}.join(" ")'`

hellvinz 2010-10-20 13:36:59

arg comments have screwed the command, the grey area should be surrounded by back ticks

hellvinz 2010-10-20 13:41:39

add your trick on answer . It's really relevant.

shingara 2010-10-20 14:17:56

Didn't know about "git grep", that's pretty useful :)

Matt Roberts 2010-10-21 07:56:42

Answer 2

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I prefer http://railsapi.com/ both local and remote. Quick search, nice design and magic Show on Github link

c0r0ner 2010-10-20 12:29:32

Nice site. I think for pure ease this wins because it requires the smallest amount of brain effort :)

Matt Roberts 2010-10-21 07:58:20

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