SYNOPSIS

yard command [options]

DESCRIPTION

yard is an extensible documentation generation tool for the Ruby programming language. It enables the user to generate consistent, usable documentation that can be exported to a number of formats very easily, and also supports extending for custom Ruby constructs such as custom class level definitions.

Below are listed the commands that can be passed to the yard on the command line. For more details about a command, use yard help command from the command line.

COMMANDS

config

Views or edits current global configuration

diff

Returns the object diff of two gems or .yardoc files

display

Displays a formatted object

doc

Generates documentation. yardoc(1) is a synonym of yard doc.

gems

Builds YARD index for gems

graph

Graphs class diagram using Graphviz

help

Retrieves help for a command

i18n

Generates .pot file from source code and extra documentation

list

Lists all constant and methods. Uses yard doc --list.

markups

Lists all available markup types and libraries

ri

A tool to view documentation in the console like ri(1). yri(1) is a synonym of yard ri.

server

Runs a local documentation server

stats

Prints documentation statistics on a set of files

AUTHORS

yard has been developed by Loren Segal <[email protected]>.

This manual page has been written for the Debian Project by Cédric Boutillier (but may used by others).