YARD VS vale-action

Compare YARD vs vale-action and see what are their differences.

YARD

YARD is a Ruby Documentation tool. The Y stands for "Yay!" (by lsegal)

vale-action

:octocat: The official GitHub Action for Vale -- install, manage, and run Vale with ease. (by errata-ai)
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YARD vale-action
18 1
1,904 181
- 7.2%
6.9 5.7
about 20 hours ago about 2 months ago
Ruby TypeScript
MIT License MIT License
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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.
  • What is JSDoc and why you may not need typescript for your next project?
    8 projects | dev.to | 22 Jan 2024
    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..
  • 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.
  • Programming types and mindsets
    4 projects | /r/ruby | 8 May 2023
    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.
  • How do you document your code?
    3 projects | /r/rails | 17 Jan 2023
    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.
  • 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.).
  • #buildinpublic, issue 1: building API documentation browser for command line
    2 projects | dev.to | 15 Oct 2022
    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.
  • The Why and How of Yardoc
    6 projects | dev.to | 17 Mar 2022
    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.
  • Graphic representation of class / module inheritance in Rails?
    2 projects | /r/rails | 26 Feb 2022
    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).
  • What is your development setup (IDE, gems, library, ci/cd etc) for RoR/non-RoR applications development ?
    8 projects | /r/ruby | 10 Feb 2022
    Linux (Fedora), gvim (because it opens a new window instead of taking up yet-another-terminal-tab), fluxbox (because it has awesomely configurable hot-key support), dotfiles, chruby + ruby-install (with rubies installed into /opt/rubies), bundler + rspec + yard + rubygems-tasks + gemspec_yml + GitHub Actions on all of my Ruby projects.
  • Best services and/or gems for automated generation of documentation, unit tests, and useful things of this nature
    2 projects | /r/ruby | 16 Jan 2022
    If you're looking to generate docs from source, there's always the yard gem. If you want a diagram of your Rails models you might try railroady. Neither will create comments in your code, which is what I understand mintlify.com is doing for you.

vale-action

Posts with mentions or reviews of vale-action. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-31.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing YARD and vale-action 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

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.

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.

Inch - A documentation analysis tool for the Ruby language

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

steep - Static type checker for Ruby

Hologram - A markdown based documentation system for style guides.

rspec_api_documentation - Automatically generate API documentation from RSpec

Doctor