SDoc¶ ↑
Powering 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:
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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¶ ↑
# 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:
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.
Usage: 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:
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.
# 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.generator = '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:
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Exception is raised when merging project documentation (ala
sdoc-merge) -
Error or warning in JavaScript or HTML found in your browser
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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:
Who?¶ ↑
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Vladimir Kolesnikov (voloko)
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Nathan Broadbent (ndbroadbent)
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Zachary Scott (zzak)
