Inch vs Documentation

Inch

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

Documentation

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rrrene.github.io

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Documentation

A Rails engine to provide the ability to add documentation to a Rails application (by adamcooke)

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Inch		Documentation
	Project
1	Mentions	-
519	Stars	216
-	Growth	-
5.7	Activity	0.0
3 months ago	Latest Commit	about 1 year 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.

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.

Documentation

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

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

What are some alternatives?

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

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

Apidoco - Ruby on Rails API documentation tool

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

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.

Apipie - Ruby on Rails API documentation tool

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

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

rspec_api_documentation - Automatically generate API documentation from RSpec

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Hologram - A markdown based documentation system for style guides.