Cane vs Flog

Cane

Code quality threshold checking as part of your build (by square)

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Flog

Flog reports the most tortured code in an easy to read pain report. The higher the score, the more pain the code is in. (by seattlerb)

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Cane		Flog
	Project
-	Mentions	6
1,322	Stars	907
0.0%	Growth	1.2%
0.0	Activity	5.5
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	7 months ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
Apache License 2.0	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Cane

Posts with mentions or reviews of Cane. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Cane yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Flog

Posts with mentions or reviews of Flog. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-16.

Flog-Driven Development
3 projects | dev.to | 16 May 2023

You point flog to a file, or directory, and it provides you with a score. The higher the score, the more attention you might want to pay to it. As for how flog calculates the number, I'll let flog summarize itself again:
Improve Code in Your Ruby Application with RubyCritic
7 projects | dev.to | 26 Oct 2022

Flog checks how difficult your code is to test. It sets a complexity score for each line of code and sums up the score for each method and class.
Gems that can identify churn, complexity, duplication and smells.
5 projects | /r/rails | 6 Aug 2022

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Code Red: The Business Impact of Code Quality
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jun 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Cane and Flog you can also consider the following projects:

Rubocop - A Ruby static code analyzer and formatter, based on the community Ruby style guide. [Moved to: https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop]

Flay - Flay analyzes code for structural similarities. Differences in literal values, variable, class, method names, whitespace, programming style, braces vs do/end, etc are all ignored.

Coverband - Ruby production code coverage collection and reporting (line of code usage)

Reek - Code smell detector for Ruby

Pronto - Quick automated code review of your changes

Pippi - pippi

Rubycritic - A Ruby code quality reporter

Fasterer - :zap: Don't make your Rubies go fast. Make them go fasterer ™. :zap:

SimpleCov - Code coverage for Ruby with a powerful configuration library and automatic merging of coverage across test suites