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Improve configuration documentation

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Ruby
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Description

YARD/RDoc doesn't provide a great way for us to add documentation for our configuration options

Ideas:

  • Automate addition of config documentation to READMEs for individual gems
  • Automate a section in instrumentation-all that lists the config options for all the gems that get installed

See #825 as one example for README-style documentation

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First steps

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start with issue #825 and the existing README-style documentation for an individual gem. Review how YARD/RDoc currently represent configuration options and how the instrumentation-all section is maintained. Done means agreeing on an approach and documenting configuration options consistently in the relevant gem READMEs and/or the aggregate section.

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Assessment

Tech stack
ruby
Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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