Apipie vs Apidoco

Apipie

Ruby on Rails API documentation tool (by Apipie)

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Apidoco

Ruby on Rails API documentation tool (by 72pulses)

Documentation Ruby ruby-gem rails-engine api-documentation-tool Rails

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apidoco-demo.herokuapp.com

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Apipie		Apidoco
	Project
2	Mentions	0
2,444	Stars	72
0.1%	Growth	-
7.2	Activity	0.0
11 days ago	Latest Commit	about 1 year ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
Apache License 2.0	License	MIT License

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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.

Apipie

Posts with mentions or reviews of Apipie. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-10.

Is there a way to easily autogenerate API documentation for a Ruby on Rails API?
4 projects | /r/rails | 10 Jan 2023
OpenAPI/Swagger comment parser for ruby
2 projects | /r/ruby | 24 Aug 2021

This gem takes directives in your controllers and can output swagger.json. It takes some work but it is nice that it can provide examples by capturing test output and because of this it doesn't get out of date as easily. https://github.com/Apipie/apipie-rails

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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Apipie and Apidoco you can also consider the following projects:

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

rswag - Seamlessly adds a Swagger to Rails-based API's

rspec_api_documentation - Automatically generate API documentation from RSpec

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

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

Annotate - Annotate Rails classes with schema and routes info

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

Hologram - A markdown based documentation system for style guides.

Inch - A documentation analysis tool for the Ruby language

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

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.