rails/rails — Issue #3559: Outdated documentation should be invisible to Google
Author: agrimm
Created: 2011-11-08 02:04:24+00:00
State: open

When you search for 'ruby starts_with' (sans quotes) with Google, http://as.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/String/StartsEndsWith.html comes up as the tenth hit, and is the first hit providing documentation. The documentation in as.rubyonrails.org is horribly out of date - it was last updated in 2008.

as.rubyonrails.org should ideally be deleted with users encouraged to use api.rubyonrails.org , but failing that, the domain should be made invisible to Google, possibly via robots.txt, so that Rails newbies don't end up using outdated documentation.