Apidoco vs Inch

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Apidoco		Inch
	Project
-	Mentions	1
72	Stars	519
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	5.7
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Apidoco

Posts with mentions or reviews of Apidoco. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Apidoco yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

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 Apidoco 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!"

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.

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

Documentation - A Rails engine to provide the ability to add documentation to a Rails application

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

rspec_api_documentation - Automatically generate API documentation from RSpec

Doctor

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