yard-yaml 0.1.1: safer UTF-8 handling for YAML documentation
The release of yard-yaml 0.1.1 enhances UTF-8 handling for YAML documentation in Ruby projects. This update improves the converter's resilience to file encodings and includes various maintenance updates for documentation and CI support. Users can now install the gem and enable the YARD plugin to generate documentation from YAML files more effectively.
- ▪yard-yaml 0.1.1 is a RubyGem that helps document YAML files alongside API docs.
- ▪The update preserves valid UTF-8 text and safely scrubs malformed UTF-8 in non-strict mode.
- ▪This release includes refreshed project tooling and CI support for better documentation maintenance.
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Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
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| Original publisher | DEV.to (Top) |
| Canonical URL | https://dev.to/galtzo/yard-yaml-011-safer-utf-8-handling-for-yaml-documentation-43jh |
| Publication time | Mon, 25 May 2026 04:24:26 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-25T04:37:35.966Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-25T04:37:35.966Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | Wlsk5UlhBiAy |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 561326) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Peter H. Boling Posted on May 25 yard-yaml 0.1.1: safer UTF-8 handling for YAML documentation #ruby #rubygems #yard #yaml yard-yaml 0.1.1 is available. yard-yaml is a RubyGem that plugs into YARD and helps Ruby projects document YAML files alongside the rest of their API docs. It can discover .yml, .yaml, and Citation File Format (.cff) files, convert them to HTML pages, and expose inline documentation tags such as @yaml and @yaml_file.
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