Update - The latest version of the CHM documentation for Rails version 1.1.2 has been released and can be found here.

Back in August there was a Rails developer who released a CHM version of the Rails 0.13.0 documentation for those that have to develop on the Windows platform. I have been using that help file for the past few months even though there are several alternate ways of getting at the Rails documentation. For some reason, I always found myself using the CHM because of the index and quick search capabilities that it provides.

However, over the past couple of weeks I found myself no longer using the CHM file, but the Rails API website instead. The reason for this was simple: Rails moved to version 1.0 a couple of months ago and introduced several new features that the CHM file just didn’t cover.

I remember seeing a Wiki article that explained how to generate the CHM manually, so yesterday morning I set out to do just that with the Rails 1.0 source. Unfortunately, I ran into several problems (just like others have). What I thought was going to be a simple little RDoc task, ended becoming a debuging task that took most of the day to get everything just right.

Download the file from here!

In the next couple of days, I plan on releasing a RAKEFILE that will allow one to easily create the CHM file from the Rails source. I also will be making the CHM file available for any future version of Rails as soon after the release as possible so as to avoid the black-out type situation that we had during the past seven months.

So, let me know if you have any suggestions or have problems with the file and enjoy!