Action Documentation

For get action documentation you need add an action block to resource controller:

# =begin action
# =end

Documentation blocks use yaml format.

Params

You need add parameters to action blocks that will be interpreted by rapidoc and used for generate documentation of actions.

• method
• action
• authentication_required
• response_formats
• description
• http_responses
• params
• errors

method

method: GET

• Type: String
• Description: method for access to acction
• Values: the most common are: GET, POST, PUT and DELETE
• Required: true

action

action: index

• Type: String
• Description: action called for this method + url
• Values: the most common are: index, show, create, update and destroy
• Required: true

authentication_required

authentication_required: true

• Type: Boolean
• Description: indicates if this action requires authentication
• Values: [true, false]
• Required: false

If you don't add this paramether, rapidoc use default value (true). For change default value see: configuration

response_formats

response_formats: json, html

• Type: String
• Description: types of formats that your API support
• Values: the most commont are: json, xml and html
• Required: false

You can omit this parameter if you use default response formats. For define default response formats see: configuration

description

description: returns all users

• Type: String
• Description: action description
• Required: false

For multi line description use > operator.
If you use inline description and want use the character : you need surround description with ''.

http_responses

http_responses:
  - 204
  - 403
  - 404

• Type: Array
• Description: http status codes that this resouece can return
• Values: the most commont are: 200, 201, 401, 404, 422...
• Required: false

params

params:
  - name: email
    description: user email
    type: String

• Type: Array
• Description: all params that you can use in request
• Required: false

For more info about params see: params

errors

params:
  - object: email
    message: invalid
    description: invalid email format

• Type: Array
• Description: all errors that request can returns
• Required: false

For more info about errors see: errors

Example

For complete example see the user tests controller: complete example