yard(1) documentation tool for Ruby

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).