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Top 6 Ruby documentation-tool Projects
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Project mention: Dev world, unplugged: 65,000+ developers’ survey results on code, AI, and burnout in 2024 (and why you should speak up in 2025) | dev.to | 2025-06-19
DevDocs the minimalist doc reader for when Stack Overflow doesn’t have the answer
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Gollum
A simple, Git-powered wiki with a local frontend and support for many kinds of markup and content.
Depends on your target user. If you want something really simple for developers, https://github.com/gollum/gollum is pretty neat (is what powers the Wiki system on GitHub), while if you want something simple for people who aren't developers, something like Mediawiki would fit better. Although Mediawiki requires a database, you can use SQLite (which is basically a file on disk as a DB) for it.
Dokuwiki is also a neat old-school alternative that basically treats files on disk as articles/pages, so no (other) DB needed.
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Jekyll is a simplistic framework for static websites that originally sparked the static website and JAMstack movements. While there are many similar frameworks with more features, Jekyll remains one of the simplest on the market. It has been somewhat forgotten and hasn't evolved much lately, to the point where some people decided to take matters into their own hands and fork this framework into something called Bridgetown.
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Project mention: Ruby's official documentation just got a new look | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-25
This is false. You can see exactly what was changed: https://github.com/ruby/rdoc/pull/1157/files
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source documentation-tool projects in Ruby? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | devdocs | 36,376 |
| 2 | Gollum | 14,024 |
| 3 | Bridgetown | 1,238 |
| 4 | RDoc | 863 |
| 5 | madness | 146 |
| 6 | docrb | 16 |
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