Inch vs Apipie

Inch

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

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Apipie

Ruby on Rails API documentation tool (by Apipie)

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Inch		Apipie
	Project
1	Mentions	2
519	Stars	2,446
-	Growth	0.2%
5.7	Activity	7.2
3 months ago	Latest Commit	13 days ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

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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.

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takes some work but it is nice that it can provide examples by capturing test output and because of this it doesn't get out of date as easily.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

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

Apidoco - Ruby on Rails API documentation tool

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

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.

rspec_api_documentation - Automatically generate API documentation from RSpec

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

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

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Annotate - Annotate Rails classes with schema and routes info