Multi-Line Comments in Ruby?

Question

How can I comment multiple lines in Ruby?

Answer 1

  def idle
    <<~aid
    This is some description of what idle does.

    It does nothing actually, it's just here to show an example of multiline
    documentation. Thus said, this is something that is more common in the
    python community. That's an important point as it's good to also fit the
    expectation of your community of work. Now, if you agree with your team to
    go with a solution like this one for documenting your own base code, that's
    fine: just discuss about it with them first.

    Depending on your editor configuration, it won't be colored like a comment,
    like those starting with a "#". But as any keyword can be used for wrapping
    an heredoc, it is easy to spot anyway. One could even come with separated
    words for different puposes, so selective extraction for different types of
    documentation generation would be more practical. Depending on your editor,
    you possibly could configure it to use the same syntax highlight used for
    monoline comment when the keyword is one like aid or whatever you like.

    Also note that the squiggly-heredoc, using "~", allow to position
    the closing term with a level of indentation. That avoids to break the visual reading flow, unlike this far too long line.
    aid
  end

Note that at the moment of the post, the stackoverflow engine doesn't render syntax coloration correctly. Testing how it renders in your editor of choice is let as an exercise. ;)