Annotate vs Inch

Annotate

Annotate Rails classes with schema and routes info (by ctran)

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Inch

A documentation analysis tool for the Ruby language (by rrrene)

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Annotate		Inch
	Project
9	Mentions	1
4,327	Stars	519
-	Growth	-
2.4	Activity	5.7
11 days ago	Latest Commit	4 months ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
Ruby License	License	MIT License

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Annotate

Posts with mentions or reviews of Annotate. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-02.

Must-have gems for mature Rails
8 projects | dev.to | 2 Feb 2024

gem "annotate" - https://github.com/ctran/annotate_models | Adds DB-schema comments to models. May be unnecessary on RubyMine, YMMW.
I spent the past 3 months working on a fork of the Annotate models gem
5 projects | /r/rails | 17 May 2023

I believe Ctran is aware of this based on his response in this issue https://github.com/ctran/annotate_models/issues/913
What was the name of the gem that finds all unindexed foreign keys?
3 projects | /r/rails | 18 Apr 2023

A gem that's pretty useful alongside this one is the annotation gem -- it prefixes models with their specific schema dump (as comments) and then updates those descriptive comments on migration. It's one of my go-to gems to install when I rotate onto a new-to-me Rails project (or start a new one) and I'm working to understand the data model.
Cansado de conferir o schema.rb
1 project | dev.to | 5 Sep 2022
Could really use some help with a plugin rake task issue
3 projects | /r/rails | 3 Apr 2022

Have you looked at annotate for inspiration?
The database and migrations work is annoying me the most about Rails as a newcomer, am I missing something?
1 project | /r/rails | 27 Jan 2022

I get it, though. Sounds like you're used to seeing every column definition in there. And that would be handy. There is a gem that you might like: https://github.com/ctran/annotate_models
Rails application boilerplate for fast MVP development
63 projects | dev.to | 6 Aug 2021

annotate for annotations

Inch

Posts with mentions or reviews of Inch. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-30.

Ask HN: How do you upskill your teams technical writing?
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Nov 2022

As a 20+-year full-stack veteran (and once-upon-a-time English major), I second this. Even the best writers in literature had editors.
To gamify documentation and review, add a static analyzer that measures documentation coverage to CI. Not sure what your stack is, but for Ruby one I've had success with was Inch: https://github.com/rrrene/inch.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Annotate and Inch you can also consider the following projects:

Apipie - Ruby on Rails API documentation tool

YARD - YARD is a Ruby Documentation tool. The Y stands for "Yay!"

RDoc - RDoc produces HTML and online documentation for Ruby projects.

Apidoco - Ruby on Rails API documentation tool

Asciidoctor - :gem: A fast, open source text processor and publishing toolchain, written in Ruby, for converting AsciiDoc content to HTML 5, DocBook 5, and other formats.

GitHub Changelog Generator - Automatically generate change log from your tags, issues, labels and pull requests on GitHub.

grape-swagger - Add OAPI/swagger v2.0 compliant documentation to your grape API

rspec_api_documentation - Automatically generate API documentation from RSpec

Hanna - RDoc generator designed with simplicity, beauty and ease of browsing in mind

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