What do you use to review Ruby and gems documentation?

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What do you use when you need to check documentation for Ruby and/or Gems?

I’m aware of the below following options, but is there any of those that you would recommend over the others? Have you found other options that are better?

Ruby Documentation

Gems Documentation

Thanks in advance! I’m looking forward in learning more about your experience with them.

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I am a pretty big user of rubyapi.org, the UI is what drew me in. But with the new theme and all the changes, the official docs don’t look bad at all!

For gems, I slightly prefer gemdocs.org since rubydoc.info can be a little unstable sometimes.

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Indeed the UI/UX in rubyapi.org is quite nice, the new Ruby docs are getting better but still a bit lacking compared to other languages…

I learned about Gemdocs last year on the talk When Things Break, We Build: The Story of Gemdocs, unfortunately it was not recorded but Adam explained how he built a different architecture to make it faster and more stable.

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I like offline docs via Dash/zeld. Also https://devdocs.io/

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Those look great! Being able to have access to multiple versions/languages in offline mode sounds promising. Is there one that you like more than the others? Or which one you would recommend to someone new?

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Dash is macOS

Zeal is Linux (Uses the same docset format that as Dash)

devdocs.io is in browser, so OS independent.

So I’d suggest that it is more a matter of what OS you are on, and if you want a separate desktop app, or are comfortable with a tab.

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