Autodoc
Generate documentation from your rack application & request-spec.
Installation
gem "autodoc", group: :test
If you want to generate toc_html, you should install redcarpet gem (optional).
gem "redcarpet", group: :test
Usage
Run rspec with AUTODOC=1 to generate documents for your request-specs tagged with :autodoc
.
example: Autodoc generates doc/recipes.md and doc/toc.md from spec/requests/recipes_spec.rb.
# shell-command
AUTODOC=1 rspec
Examples
For any Rack application with rack-test
# spec/requests/entries_spec.rb
describe "Entries" do
include Rack::Test::Methods
let(:app) do
MyRackApplication
end
describe "GET /entries", autodoc: true do
it "returns entries" do
get "/entries"
last_response.status.should == 200
end
end
end
For Rails application with rspec-rails
# spec/requests/recipes_spec.rb
describe "Recipes" do
describe "POST /recipes", autodoc: true do
it "creates a new recipe" do
post "/recipes", name: "alice", type: 1
response.status.should == 201
end
end
end
Custom description
You can write more detailed descriptions with let(:description)
.
describe "Recipes" do
describe "PUT /recipes/:id", autodoc: true do
let(:description) do
"Updates a recipe. `name` parameter is required."
end
it "updates a recipe" do
put "/recipes/#{recipe.id}", name: "Bob"
response.status.should == 204
end
end
end
Configuration
You can configure Autodoc.configuration
to change its behavior:
- path - [String] location to put files (default: ./doc)
- suppressed_request_header - [Strings] filtered request header keys
- suppressed_response_header - [Strings] filtered response header keys
- template - [String] ERB template for each document (default: document.md.erb)
- toc_template - [String] ERB template for ToC (default: toc.md.erb)
- toc - [Boolean] whether to generate toc.md (default: false)
- toc_html_template - [String] ERB template for html ToC (default: toc.html.erb)
- toc_html - [Boolean] whether to generate toc.html - a single page documentation with a toc (default: false)
- document_path_from_example - [Proc] specify a Proc to change the naming rule of document file paths
Autodoc.configuration.path = "doc/api"
Autodoc.configuration.toc = true
Autodoc.configuration.toc_html = true
Autodoc.configuration.template = File.read(File.expand_path("../autodoc/templates/document.md.erb", __FILE__))
Autodoc.configuration.document_path_from_example = -> (example) do
example.file_path.gsub(%r<\./spec/requests/api/(.+)_spec\.rb>, '\1.md')
end
WeakParameters integration
If your app uses WeakParameters to define parameters schema
in your controller, autodoc scans them and provides ### Parameters
section to generated docs.
class RecipesController < ApplicationController
validates :create do
string :name, required: true, except: ["charlie", "dave"]
integer :type, only: 1..3
end