Guard::Yard allows you to automatically run and update your local YARD Documentation Server. It aims to centralize your file monitoring to guard instead of using the yard server --reload command which can be unreliable and provides little control over the generated documentation. Guard::Yard monitors files and updates only the documentation than changes, as opposed to generating the entire documentation suite. That means that changes to your documentation are available sooner!
Ensure you have Guard installed before you continue.
Add guard-yard to your Gemfile (inside development group):
gem 'guard-yard'
Install or update your bundle:
bundle install
Add the default guard-yard definition to your Guardfile:
guard init yard
Please read the Guardfile DSL documentation for additional information.
Guard::Yard automatically detects changes in your app, lib and ext directories, but you can have it monitor additional files using the Guardfile DSL.
Guard::Yard also provides some basic options for doc generation and running the YARD server.
guard 'yard', :port => '8808' do
...
end
Available options:
:port => '8808' # Port on which the server shoud run.
:stdout => 'yard.log' # File in which to log the yard server output.
:stderr => '/dev/null' # File in which to log the yard server errors.
To generate or re-create documentation from a clean-slate, run the following command:
rm -rf .yardoc && yard doc
When booting guard, Guard::Yard will do this for you automatically if no .yardoc directory is present. Once guard is running you can execute this command by using the Ctrl-\ key combination as well.
If you are running into issues, try re-creating your documentation using rm -rf .yardoc && yard doc. Once this operation is complete, restart guard. If you are still having problems, open a new issue in the GitHub issue tracker for this project.