YARD
YARD is a Ruby Documentation tool. The Y stands for "Yay!" (by lsegal)
Annotate
Annotate Rails classes with schema and routes info (by ctran)
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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.
YARD
Posts with mentions or reviews of YARD.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-22.
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What is JSDoc and why you may not need typescript for your next project?
JSDOC is a predefined method of documenting code for javascript ecosystem created in 1999 that works similar to libraries for other languages such as: Javadoc for java, YARD for ruby, etc..
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Xeme: I'd value your opinion on my new Ruby gem
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.
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Programming types and mindsets
I still just document everything using YARD and focus on designing really obvious Object Models and of course write tests. I have tried using sord to convert my YARD type annotations to RBS or RBI, but you still have to fill in missing bits, then use steep and somehow load in RBS/RBI files for other gems and stdlib, and it's just an uphill battle since Ruby is dynamically typed by default. Obviously Dynamic Typing lends itself more to Dynamic Languages, where you can call an arbitrary method and let the language VM figure it out at runtime. Static or Strong Typing lends itself better to compiled languages where everything needs to be resolved at compile time and converted into object code. If I need to work in a compiled language, then I'll use Crystal, which also supports type inference. TypeScript's type syntax is quite nice, but I tend to avoid writing massive JavaScript code bases where a Type Checker helps catch subtle bugs, and instead prefer sticking to minimal amounts of vanilla JavaScriot in order to keep complexity low and not overwhelm the browser.
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kwargs and YARD: @param or @option?
I had a dig into the file history, and it looks like we have to go back to 0.7 to find the old tag list. Here we find the info we need to understand the intent of the @option tag:
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Comparing RDoc, YARD, and SDoc: Choosing the Right Documentation Generator for Your Ruby on Rails 5 Project
YARD: http://yardoc.org/
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How do you document your code?
I tend to follow along using the YardDoc comment style. It has many small things I love about it; an example is when yardoc is followed it can be used to generate RBS/Sorbet type files with the sord gem, you can also generate application documents similar to rdoc/sdoc.
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The right is on the left
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.).
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#buildinpublic, issue 1: building API documentation browser for command line
My first assumption was, that I should be able to generate markdown from the source. Same ruby and rails does now, but only tweaking a couple of parameters to generate .md files instead. YARD is being used for that and it supports any markup rdoc or yard.
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The Why and How of Yardoc
I’ve long used the YARD format and chose to use that as my documentation syntax. I suppose I didn’t check with anyone on this decision and slowly started adding documentation. I want to use this post to synthesize my implicit decision and the benefits of using Yard as the documentation format.
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Graphic representation of class / module inheritance in Rails?
That said, YARD is a ruby documentation tool that has a yard graph command you can use to dump a UML graph for your app into a .dot file, which can be used with lots of different graphing tools (usually graphviz but there are a bunch of online tools and open source projects that can visualize them for you).
Annotate
Posts with mentions or reviews of Annotate.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-02.
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Must-have gems for mature Rails
gem "annotate" - https://github.com/ctran/annotate_models | Adds DB-schema comments to models. May be unnecessary on RubyMine, YMMW.
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I spent the past 3 months working on a fork of the Annotate models gem
I believe Ctran is aware of this based on his response in this issue https://github.com/ctran/annotate_models/issues/913
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What was the name of the gem that finds all unindexed foreign keys?
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.
- Cansado de conferir o schema.rb
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Could really use some help with a plugin rake task issue
Have you looked at annotate for inspiration?
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The database and migrations work is annoying me the most about Rails as a newcomer, am I missing something?
I get it, though. Sounds like you're used to seeing every column definition in there. And that would be handy. There is a gem that you might like: https://github.com/ctran/annotate_models
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Rails application boilerplate for fast MVP development
annotate for annotations
What are some alternatives?
When comparing YARD and Annotate you can also consider the following projects:
RDoc - RDoc produces HTML and online documentation for Ruby projects.
Apipie - Ruby on Rails API documentation tool
grape-swagger - Add OAPI/swagger v2.0 compliant documentation to your grape API
GitHub Changelog Generator - Automatically generate change log from your tags, issues, labels and pull requests on GitHub.
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
Inch - A documentation analysis tool for the Ruby language
Hanna - RDoc generator designed with simplicity, beauty and ease of browsing in mind