rspec_api_documentation VS Annotate

Compare rspec_api_documentation vs Annotate and see what are their differences.

rspec_api_documentation

Automatically generate API documentation from RSpec (by zipmark)

Annotate

Annotate Rails classes with schema and routes info (by ctran)
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rspec_api_documentation Annotate
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rspec_api_documentation

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Annotate

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  • Must-have gems for mature Rails
    8 projects | dev.to | 2 Feb 2024
    gem "annotate" - https://github.com/ctran/annotate_models | Adds DB-schema comments to models. May be unnecessary on RubyMine, YMMW.
  • I spent the past 3 months working on a fork of the Annotate models gem
    5 projects | /r/rails | 17 May 2023
    Glad you're taking the lead on continuing work on this gem. I use it extensively, but one of the biggest issues is the same as this one: https://github.com/ctran/annotate_models/issues/946. Any chance you addressed that in your version?
    5 projects | /r/rails | 17 May 2023
    Hi yall. If you have seen db schema comments atop of model files then you've probably used the annotate gem. I left my job back in February and wanted to work on open source with some of my free time. So, I've spent the past 3 months on a fork and wanted to tell r/rails about it.
    5 projects | /r/rails | 17 May 2023
    I believe Ctran is aware of this based on his response in this issue https://github.com/ctran/annotate_models/issues/913
  • What was the name of the gem that finds all unindexed foreign keys?
    3 projects | /r/rails | 18 Apr 2023
    A gem that's pretty useful alongside this one is the annotation gem -- it prefixes models with their specific schema dump (as comments) and then updates those descriptive comments on migration. It's one of my go-to gems to install when I rotate onto a new-to-me Rails project (or start a new one) and I'm working to understand the data model.
  • Could really use some help with a plugin rake task issue
    3 projects | /r/rails | 3 Apr 2022
    Have you looked at annotate for inspiration?
  • Rails application boilerplate for fast MVP development
    63 projects | dev.to | 6 Aug 2021
    annotate for annotations

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rspec_api_documentation and Annotate you can also consider the following projects:

Apipie - Ruby on Rails API documentation tool

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

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

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

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

Doctor

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

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.

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