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Missing '@return' tag in method

Reports methods that are not annotated with a @return tag. A quick-fix is available to add the missing @return tag.

Locating this inspection

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Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

MissingYardReturnTag
Via Settings dialog

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Inspection ID: MissingYardReturnTag

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection MissingYardReturnTag

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

Qodana for Ruby 2025.2, RubyMine 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025