# Documenting web services

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/documenting-web-services/143422>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 18, 2008, 11:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/documenting-web-services/143422 "2008-07-18T11:25:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nicholas\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/f17d59/32.png) [@Nicholas\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Nicholas_W)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 11:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/documenting-web-services/143422/1 "2008-07-18T11:25:50Z")

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What is the preferred way to document a web service ? I don’t like  
RDoc because it documents the whole project, so basically what I need  
is documenting just a small subset of it.  
What do you people suggest ?

ngw