SYNOPSIS
yarddoc [options] [source_files [- extra_files]] yard doc [options] [source_files [- extra_files]]DESCRIPTION
yard(1) 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.yardoc, synonym for yard doc generates the documentation from the list of source_files. If this list is omitted, "{lib,app}/**/*.rb ext/**/*.c" is used.
A base set of options can be specified by adding a .yardopts file to your base path containing all extra options separated by whitespace.
OPTIONS
General Options
- -b, --db FILE
- Use a specified .yardoc db to load from or save to (defaults to .yardoc)
- --[no-]single-db
- Whether code objects should be stored to single database file (advanced)
- -n, --no-output
- Only generate .yardoc database, no documentation.
- -c, --use-cache [FILE]
- Use the cached .yardoc db to generate documentation (defaults to no cache)
- --no-cache
- Clear .yardoc db before parsing source.
- --[no-]yardopts [FILE]
- If arguments should be read from FILE (defaults to yes, FILE defaults to .yardopts)
- --[no-]document
- If arguments should be read from .document file (defaults to yes)
- --no-save
- Do not save the parsed data to the yardoc db
- --exclude REGEXP
- Ignores a file if it matches path match (regexp)
Output options
- --one-file
- Generates output as a single file
- --list
- List objects to standard out (implies -n)
- --no-public
- Don't show public methods. (default shows public)
- --protected
- Show protected methods. (default hides protected)
- --private
- Show private methods. (default hides private)
- --no-private
- Hide objects with @private tag
- --[no-]api API
- Generates documentation for a given API (objects which define the correct @api tag). If --no-api is given, displays objects with no @api tag.
- --embed-mixins
- Embeds mixin methods into class documentation
- --embed-mixin [MODULE]
- Embeds mixin methods from a particular module into class documentation
- --no-highlight
- Don't highlight code blocks in output.
- --default-return TYPE
- Shown if method has no return type. (defaults to 'Object')
- --hide-void-return
- Hides return types specified as 'void'. (default is shown)
- --query QUERY
- Only show objects that match a specific query
- --title TITLE
- Add a specific title to HTML documents
- -r, --readme, --main FILE
- The readme file used as the title page of documentation.
- --files FILE1,FILE2,...
- Any extra comma separated static files to be included (eg. FAQ)
- --asset FROM[:TO]
- A file or directory to copy over to output directory after generating
- -o, --output-dir PATH
- The output directory. (defaults to ./doc)
- -m, --markup MARKUP
- Markup style used in documentation, like textile, markdown or rdoc (defaults to rdoc).
- -M MARKUP_PROVIDER
- Overrides the library used to process markup
- --markup-provider
- formatting (specify the gem name)
- --charset ENC
- Character set to use when parsing files (default is system locale)
- -t, --template TEMPLATE
- The template to use. (defaults to ``default'')
- -p, --template-path PATH
- The template path to look for templates in. (used with -t).
- -f, --format FORMAT
- The output format for the template (defaults to html).
- --no-stats
- Don't print statistics
- --locale LOCALE
- The locale for generated documentation (defaults to en).
- --po-dir DIR
- The directory that has .po files (defaults to #{YARD::Registry.po_dir}).
Tag options:
(TAG:TITLE looks like: 'overload:Overloaded Method')- --tag TAG:TITLE
- Registers a new free-form metadata @tag
- --type-tag TAG:TITLE
- Tag with an optional types field
- --type-name-tag TAG:TITLE
- Tag with optional types and a name field
- --name-tag TAG:TITLE
- Tag with a name field
- --title-tag TAG:TITLE
- Tag with first line as title field
- --hide-tag TAG
- Hides a previously defined tag from templates
- --transitive-tag TAG
- Marks a tag as transitive
- --non-transitive-tag TAG
- Marks a tag as not transitive
Other options:
- -e, --load FILE
- A Ruby script to load before running command.
- --plugin PLUGIN
- Load a YARD plugin (gem with `yard-' prefix)
- --legacy
- Use old style Ruby parser and handlers. Always on in 1.8.x.
- --safe
- Enable safe mode for this instance
- -q, --quiet
- Show no warnings.
- --verbose
- Show more information.
- --debug
- Show debugging information.
- --backtrace
- Show stack traces
- -v, --version
- Show version.
- -h, --help
- Show this help.
EXAMPLES
yardoc -o "documentation/" - "FAQ" "LICENSE"The above example outputs documentation for files in "lib/**/*.rb" to "documentation/" including the extra files "FAQ" and "LICENSE".
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).