Add documentation in ruby codebase

libimagruby/lib/imag.rb

@@ -1,9 +1,25 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env ruby
 
+# imag ruby interface module
+#
+# This module is created because the library which is used to write the Ruby
+# bindings in Rust does not support modules.
+#
+# This is a wrapper to have nice Ruby-like things in the Ruby codebase and for
+# beeing backwards compatible as soon as the Rust library gets module support.
+#
+# There will probably always be a wrapper for the Rust library, to be more
+# flexible with the API, though.
 module Imag
 
+  # Function name of the function to call to initialize the Rust backend part.
+  # Do not use.
   IMAG_INIT_FN_NAME = 'imag_ruby_initialize'
 
+  # Setup method
+  #
+  # Call this method for initializing the library.
+  # It dynamically creates the classes for the imag library.
   def self.setup binary_path
     require binary_path
 
@@ -11,6 +27,9 @@ module Imag
     self.classes_setup
   end
 
+  # Abstraction over the logger frontend of the binary
+  #
+  # This is just a translation to nice Ruby code
   module Logger
 
     def self.init cfg
@@ -20,26 +39,32 @@ module Imag
       RImag.init_logger debug, verbose, color
     end
 
+    # Log text with "trace" level in imag
     def self.trace msg
       RImag.trace msg
     end
 
+    # Log text with "debug" level in imag
     def self.dbg msg
       RImag.dbg msg
     end
 
+    # Log text with "debug" level in imag (alias for Imag::Logger::dbg)
     def self.debug msg
       RImag.debug msg
     end
 
+    # Log text with "info" level in imag
     def self.info msg
       RImag.info msg
     end
 
+    # Log text with "warning" level in imag
     def self.warn msg
       RImag.warn msg
     end
 
+    # Log text with "error" level in imag
     def self.error msg
       RImag.error msg
     end
@@ -48,6 +73,13 @@ module Imag
 
   private
 
+  # Class names of the Classes in the Ruby scope
+  #
+  # These classes are created by the Rust backend with an "R" prefix, and are
+  # here mapped to Ruby classes by inheriting from them.
+  #
+  # Addidional functionality and convenience methods can then be set up upon
+  # these pure Ruby classes.
   def self.class_names
     [
       :StoreId             ,
@@ -58,16 +90,25 @@ module Imag
     ]
   end
 
+  # Do the core setup
+  #
+  # Maps the Rust classes to Ruby classes by inheriting from them
   def self.core_setup
     self.class_names.map {|n| [n, "R#{n}".to_sym ] }.each do |elem|
       Imag.const_set elem.first, Kernel.const_get(elem.last)
     end
   end
 
+  # Class setup
+  #
+  # Summarizing method for calling all the class-setup methods.
   def self.classes_setup
     self.class_storeid_setup
   end
 
+  # Class setup for the StoreId class
+  #
+  # Sets up additional methods for the Imag::StoreId class.
   def self.class_storeid_setup
     Imag::StoreId.class_exec do
       def to_s