RDoc VS Asciidoctor

Compare RDoc vs Asciidoctor and see what are their differences.

RDoc

RDoc produces HTML and online documentation for Ruby projects. (by ruby)

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. (by asciidoctor)
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RDoc Asciidoctor
8 34
819 4,638
0.9% 1.6%
8.8 8.9
5 days ago 24 days ago
Ruby Ruby
Ruby License MIT License
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RDoc

Posts with mentions or reviews of RDoc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-29.
  • Xeme: I'd value your opinion on my new Ruby gem
    5 projects | /r/ruby | 29 May 2023
    In addition to project documentation, you've included a lot of code comments. You could adopt a standardized format and use it to generate API documentation. RDoc and YARD are two options. If I were reviewing this code at work, I would probably ask you to remove comments that explain what, not why.
  • The right is on the left
    3 projects | /r/technicallythetruth | 13 Jan 2023
    That turns out to be a pretty common use case for markdown. Github, for example, renders your README.md is part of a git repo's "home" page. It's also common to have tooling that parses specially formatted comments in your source code and produce a documentation bundle, usually as a web page (ex. RDoc, YARD, JSDoc, etc.).
  • RDoc questions
    1 project | dev.to | 29 Jul 2021
    I have an open (draft) documentation PR for RDoc over at GitHub (https://github.com/ruby/rdoc/pull/824) that has six unanswered questions. These are embedded in the committed text itself, and each is labelled as "Reviewers: ...."
  • ¿Por qué aprender Ruby en 2021?
    9 projects | dev.to | 27 Jun 2021
  • Generate API Docs
    2 projects | /r/rails | 20 May 2021
    If you want to document your whole code base you should check https://github.com/ruby/rdoc
  • CVE-2021-31799: A command injection vulnerability in RDoc
    2 projects | /r/ruby | 4 May 2021
    I suspect the fix is to remove_unparseable, and the repository, like the CVE, just hasn't been updated yet.
  • Building Jekyll-Twitch, the gem
    8 projects | dev.to | 1 Apr 2021
    RDoc We'll use this gem to document our TwitchTag.rb class.

Asciidoctor

Posts with mentions or reviews of Asciidoctor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-25.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing RDoc and Asciidoctor you can also consider the following projects:

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

Zettlr - Your One-Stop Publication Workbench

Apipie - Ruby on Rails API documentation tool

plantuml - Generate diagrams from textual description

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

ansible-doc-generator - CLI for documenting Ansible roles into Markdown files.

Annotate - Annotate Rails classes with schema and routes info

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

rspec_api_documentation - Automatically generate API documentation from RSpec

hugo-PaperMod - A fast, clean, responsive Hugo theme.

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

pandoc - Universal markup converter