RDoc VS Inch

Compare RDoc vs Inch and see what are their differences.

RDoc

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

Inch

A documentation analysis tool for the Ruby language (by rrrene)
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RDoc Inch
8 1
820 519
0.0% -
8.7 5.7
about 15 hours ago 4 months ago
Ruby Ruby
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later 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.

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 RDoc and Inch you can also consider the following projects:

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.

Apidoco - Ruby on Rails API documentation tool

Apipie - Ruby on Rails API documentation tool

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

Annotate - Annotate Rails classes with schema and routes info

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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