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René Föhring
October 17, 2015
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How to get people excited about inline docs. One Inch
at a Time René Föhring // @rrrene inch-ci.org
How to get people excited about inline docs. One Inch
at a Time René Föhring // @rrrene inch-ci.org
@rrrene
@rrrene (read in pirate voice)
@rrrene (read in pirate voice) coder ∙ teacher ∙ researcher
(insert more self-description here)
@rrrene creator of Inch / running Inch CI
Inline Docs?
# TODO: write some docs # def size(filename_or_blob, mode =
nil) end
# Returns the size of a given +filename_or_blob+. # #
size(filename) # => 4096 # def size(filename_or_blob, mode = nil) end
# Returns the size of a given +filename_or_blob+. # #
size(filename) # => 4096 # def size(filename_or_blob, mode = nil) end free-form
# Detects the size of the blob. # # size(filename)
# => 4096 # # Params: # +filename_or_blob+:: String filename or blob # +mode+:: Optional mode (defaults to nil) def size(filename_or_blob, mode = nil) end RDoc
# Detects the size of the blob. # # @example
# size(filename) # => 4096 # # @param filename_or_blob [String] the filename # @param mode [String, nil] optional mode # @return [Fixnum,nil] def size(filename_or_blob, mode = nil) end YARD
# Public: Detects the size of the blob. # #
filename_or_blob – filename or blob # mode - Optional mode (defaults to nil) # # Examples # # size(filename) # => 4096 # # Returns Fixnum or nil. def size(filename_or_blob, mode = nil) end TomDoc
(ง ͠° ͟ل ͜ ͡°)ง But what is the problem?
„good code is its own documentation“ (myself ten years ago)
versus „people are not Ruby parsers“ (Zach Holman)
Tooling helps! because, there must be tools, right?
None
None
„There are 0 lines of documentation.“ or „65.7% documented“
Look, here are the facts.
Designing Inch Let‘s create a more opinionated tool.
First, let‘s make up some rules.
it is more important to document … public methods than
private ones
it is more important to document … public methods than
private ones methods with many parameters
it is more important to document … public methods than
private ones methods with many parameters modules containing methods
it is more important to document … public methods than
private ones methods with many parameters modules containing methods ...
code objects ordered by priority 4 4 4 2 2
0 -1 -2 -2 -4 -5 -7
code objects ordered by priority 4 4 4 2 2
0 -1 -2 -2 -4 -5 -7
# These rules provide priorities for all # code objects.
CODE_OBJECTS = %w( classes modules constants methods parameters ) # ... which are also assigned a score. SCORES = (0..100)
# Called by the `initech` gem. # # @return [void]
def user_registered(username, _) end Score: ? Priority: ?
# Called by the `initech` gem. # # @return [void]
def user_registered(username, _) end Score: 90/100 Priority:
# Called by the `initech` gem. # # @return [void]
def user_registered(username, _) end Score: 90/100 Priority:
# Called by the `initech` gem. # # @return [void]
def user_registered(username, _) end Grade: A Priority:
>> GradeList.all A – Really good B – Proper documentation
found C – Please take a look U – Undocumented (not a bad thing)
>> CLI _
# Properly documented, could be improved: ┃ 50 4 Foo#initialize
┃ 50 4 Foo::Bar # Please take a look: ┃ 37 4 Foo::API#initialize ┃ 25 2 Foo::CodeObject#initialize # Undocumented: ┃ 0 4 Foo::CLI ┃ 0 4 Foo::API#send_request
# Properly documented, could be improved: ┃ B ↑ Foo#initialize
┃ B ↑ Foo::Bar # Please take a look: ┃ C ↑ Foo::API#initialize ┃ C ↗ Foo::CodeObject#initialize # Undocumented: ┃ U ↑ Foo::CLI ┃ U ↑ Foo::API#send_request
>> inch suggest
>> inch suggest
>> inch list
>> inch diff
>> inch show OBJECT_NAME
>> CLI !!!
>> CLI !!! but how to get people excited about
this?
BADGES
None
U C B A
None
None
None
None
1500x
1500x Ruby, JS & Elixir
The Things I learned
#1 Software is about people
#2 Be passionate about your ideas
#3 Be brave enough to build your own tools
#4 Make it useful, accessible and beautiful
#5 Share the lessons you‘ve learned
How to get people excited about inline docs. One Inch
at a Time inch-ci.org René Föhring // @rrrene