YARD-RSpec: A YARD extension for RSpec 2

NOTE: This extension is currently under development. At the current moment, the plugin is not particularly useful for any individual. Please feel free to clone and take a look around.

Currently the project is still in requirements gathering phase. The work up to this point has been finding and parsing the various components one finds in an RSpec file and convert them to YARD code objects.

I would love ideas, thoughts, and mock ups of visualization and presentation of the data and how you would be see the gem serving you.

Synopsis

YARD-Rspec is a YARD extension that processes RSpec test files and includes them in the documentation output. Tests are often sited as our best documentation, so it makes sense to include them there along side the classes, modules, and methods that they currently test.

YARD-Rspec takes the work started by @lsegal and expands on it to include some small things (e.g. context keyword) and larger things like the full view of the specification file.

Examples

**1. Specs in-line with with classes and the methods.

**2. Specs displayed with links to their class, module, and method counterparts.

**3. Specs searchable through a similar interface like class, modules, and files.

Installation

Build the gem yourself:

$ git clone https://github.com/burtlo/yard-rspec
$ cd yard-rspec
$ gem build yard-rspec.gemspec
$ gem install --local yard-rspec-X.X.X.gem

Usage

YARD supports for automatically including gems with the prefix yard- as a plugin. To enable automatic loading yard-cucumber.

1. Edit ~/.yard/config and insert the following line:

   load_plugins: true

2. Run yardoc, use the rake task, or run yard server, as would normally.

Be sure to update any file patterns so that they do not exclude feature files. yard-cucumber will even process your step definitions and transforms.

$ yardoc 'lib/**/*.rb' 'spec/**/*_spec.rb'

An example with the rake task:

require 'yard'

YARD::Rake::YardocTask.new do |t|
  t.files   = ['lib/**/*.rb' 'spec/**/*_spec.rb']
  t.options = ['--debug'] # optional arguments
end

LICENSE

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2011 Franklin Webber

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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