SDoc
Powering http://api.rubyonrails.org/
What is sdoc?
SDoc is an HTML template built on top of the RDoc documentation generator for Ruby code.
Provided are two command-line tools you get when you installing the gem:
sdoc
- command line tool to run rdoc withgenerator=shtml
(searchable HTML)sdoc-merge
- command line tool to merge multiple sdoc folders into a single documentation site
Getting Started
“sh
Install the gem
gem install sdoc
Generate documentation for ‘projectdir’
sdoc projectdir
“
sdoc
sdoc
is simply a wrapper for the rdoc
command line tool. See sdoc --help
for more details.
When using the sdoc
command, --fmt
is set to shtml
by default. The default template (or -T
option) is set to shtml
, but you can also use the direct
template when generating documentation.
Example:
“sh sdoc -o doc/rails -T direct rails
“
sdoc-merge
sdoc-merge
is useful tool for combining multiple projects documentation into one HTML website. See sdoc-merge --help
for more details.
“sage: sdoc-merge [options] directories -n, –names [NAMES] Names of merged repositories. Comma separated -o, –op [DIRECTORY] Set the output directory -t, –title [TITLE] Set the title of merged file
“
Example:
“sh sdoc-merge –title “Ruby v1.9, Rails v2.3.2.1” –op merged –names “Ruby,Rails” ruby-v1.9 rails-v2.3.2.1
“
Rake Task
If you want, you can setup a task in your Rakefile
for generating your project’s documentation via the rake rdoc
command.
“by
Rakefile
require ‘sdoc’ # and use your RDoc task the same way you used it before require ‘rdoc/task’ # ensure this file is also required in order to use RDoc::Task
RDoc::Task.new do |rdoc| rdoc.rdoc_dir = ‘doc/rdoc’ # name of output directory rdoc.options « ‘–format=sdoc’ # explictly set the sdoc generator rdoc.template = ‘rails’ # template used on api.rubyonrails.org end
“
NOTE: If you don’t set template
the default “sdoc” template is chosen, with a lighter color scheme.
Now you can execute this command with rake rdoc
, to compile the documentation for the current project directory.
Alternatively you can pass this command a path to the project you wish to compile: rake rdoc path/to/project
.
RDoc
As mentioned before, SDoc is built on top of the RDoc project.
If you notice any bugs in the output of your documentation, it may be RDoc’s fault and should be reported upstream.
An example of an SDoc bug would be:
- Exception is raised when merging project documentation (ala
sdoc-merge
) - Error or warning in JavaScript or HTML found in your browser
- Generation fails with some exception (likely due to incompatibility with RDoc)
Please feel free to still report issues here for both projects, especially if you aren’t sure.
As maintainer of both projects, I’ll see if I can identify the root of the cause :bow: :bow: :bow:
Contributing
If you’d like to contribute you can generate the Rails main branch documentation by running:
“sh rake test:rails
“
You can generate the Ruby default branch documentation by running:
“sh rake test:ruby
“
You can generate merged Rails and Ruby documentation by running:
“sh rake test:merged
“
The generated documentation will be put into doc/public
directory. To view the just generated documentation start up a rack application by running:
“sh rackup config.ru
“
Then open http://localhost:9292 in the browser to view the documentation.
Who?
- Vladimir Kolesnikov (voloko)
- Nathan Broadbent (ndbroadbent)
- Zachary Scott (zzak)