module RDoc
RDoc produces documentation for Ruby source files by parsing the source and extracting the definition for classes, modules, methods, includes and requires. It associates these with optional documentation contained in an immediately preceding comment block then renders the result using an output formatter.
For a simple introduction to writing or generating documentation using RDoc see the README.
Roadmap¶ ↑
If you think you found a bug in RDoc see Bugs at CONTRIBUTING
If you want to use RDoc to create
documentation for your Ruby source files, see RDoc::Markup and refer to rdoc
--help
for command line usage.
If you want to set the default markup format see Supported Formats at RDoc::Markup
If you want to store rdoc configuration in your gem (such as the default markup format) see Saved Options at RDoc::Options
If you want to write documentation for Ruby files see RDoc::Parser::Ruby
If you want to write documentation for extensions written in C see RDoc::Parser::C
If you want to generate documentation using rake
see RDoc::Task.
If you want to drive RDoc programmatically, see RDoc::RDoc.
If you want to use the library to format text blocks into HTML or other formats, look at RDoc::Markup.
If you want to make an RDoc plugin such as a generator or directive handler see RDoc::RDoc.
If you want to write your own output generator see RDoc::Generator.
If you want an overview of how RDoc works see Bugs at CONTRIBUTING
Credits¶ ↑
RDoc is currently being maintained by Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net>.
Dave Thomas <dave@pragmaticprogrammer.com> is the original author of RDoc.
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The Ruby parser in rdoc/parse.rb is based heavily on the outstanding work of Keiju ISHITSUKA of Nippon Rational Inc, who produced the Ruby parser for irb and the rtags package.
Constants
- ATTR_MODIFIERS
RDoc modifiers for attributes
- CLASS_MODIFIERS
RDoc modifiers for classes
- CONSTANT_MODIFIERS
RDoc modifiers for constants
- DOT_DOC_FILENAME
Name of the dotfile that contains the description of files to be processed in the current directory
- GENERAL_MODIFIERS
General RDoc modifiers
- KNOWN_CLASSES
Ruby's built-in classes, modules and exceptions
- METHOD_MODIFIERS
RDoc modifiers for methods
- VERSION
RDoc version you are using
- VISIBILITIES
Method visibilities
Public Class Methods
Loads the best available YAML library.
# File lib/rdoc.rb, line 109 def self.load_yaml begin gem 'psych' rescue Gem::LoadError end begin require 'psych' rescue ::LoadError ensure require 'yaml' end end