rbs VS web_pipe

Compare rbs vs web_pipe and see what are their differences.

rbs

Type Signature for Ruby (by ruby)

web_pipe

One-way pipe, composable, rack application builder (by waiting-for-dev)
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rbs web_pipe
20 5
1,866 62
1.9% -
9.7 6.1
3 days ago 4 months ago
Ruby Ruby
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later -
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rbs

Posts with mentions or reviews of rbs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-21.
  • A decent VS Code and Ruby on Rails setup
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Feb 2024
    I saw no mention of RBS+Steep, the latter providing a LSP. I use it a lot and very much like it, although it's still young and needs love, but it's making good, steady progress! I've been very pleasantly surprised by some of the crazy things Steep can catch, completely statically!

    You appear to be working on projects with Sorbet (which I tried to like but found it fell short in practice, notably outside of the app use case i.e it's mostly useless for gems) so it may be a tall order to try on those. Maybe you can give RBS+Steep a shot on some small project?

    RBS: https://github.com/ruby/rbs

    RBS collection (for those gems that don't ship RBS signatures in `sig`, integrates with bundler): https://github.com/ruby/gem_rbs_collection

    Steep: https://github.com/soutaro/steep

    VS Code: https://github.com/soutaro/steep-vscode

    Sublime Text: https://github.com/sublimelsp/LSP

    Vim (I'm working on it): https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale/pull/4671

  • What it was like working for Gitlab
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Feb 2024
    I don't know what you mean by "Static typing is not webscale".

    > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39159481

    Bugs exist in all code written in all programming languages and you will find bugs in programs written in statically typed languages too as you know. Programming languages are rarely chosen for the absense of bugs alone though or we'd all be using SPARK Ada or something.

    > spitting out code as fast as your keyboard works, or is is not having features do weirdo things

    This is a straw man. No-one has suggested that "spitting out code as fast as your keyboard works" is what Rails allows you to do, or that Ruby code results in features that "do weirdo things".

    In reality engineer productivity is important and Rails enables it in a web environment.

    > I have more than once tried to contribute fixes to GitLab's codebase, and every time I open the thing in RubyMine it hurpdurps having no earthly idea where symbols come from or what completions are legal in any given context.

    Yes, I prefer writing statically typed languages and I would /greatly/ prefer Ruby to be statically typed for a number of reasons, but it will likely never be so in a way I consider to be usable (see https://github.com/ruby/rbs). Not being able to definitively tell what a method returns or where one is defined is a total PITA, but it's one of the array of up and downsides to Ruby, with each language having a different set.

    > I trust JetBrains analysis deeply, so if they can't deduce what's going on, then it must take an impressive amount of glucose to memorize every single surface area one needs to implement a feature.

    You don't need to know how all of Rails works to write a Rails app, as I'm sure you know, so this seems like another mis-representation of the truth, just as you don't need to know how the compiler or CPUs work to do a lot of (most?) programming.

    > That or, hear me out, maybe "it works on my machine" is a close to correct as the language is going to get without explicit type hints as a pseudo static typing

    You seem to be suggesting that Ruby on Rails applications behave unpredictably on a machine to machine basis but that's not really how Ruby works in practice, or matching on my experience.

  • Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Apr 2023
  • Ruby 3.2’s YJIT is Production-Ready
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jan 2023
    Ruby does have optional type annotations, if you want them:

    https://github.com/ruby/rbs

  • Crystal for Rubyists
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Nov 2022
  • Is anyone using RBS?
    3 projects | /r/ruby | 8 Mar 2022
    Is anyone using RBS? Or, is it still half-baked? I haven't seen any recent posts about it this year. Though, I see the repo has some recent activity.
  • RBS introduced manifest.yaml
    2 projects | dev.to | 25 Dec 2021
    Currently rbs collection resolves stdlib dependencies, but rbs -r LIB option doesn't resolve them unfortunately. For instance, logger depends on monitor, but rbs -r logger doesn't load monitor.
  • Catching up on things
    7 projects | /r/ruby | 19 Dec 2021
    Here is link number 1 - Previous text "RBS"
    7 projects | /r/ruby | 19 Dec 2021
    RBS is a nice new feature but what's really cool, and I hope it will be include in the standard library, is Async
  • The future of rbs collection
    9 projects | dev.to | 28 Sep 2021
    Partial clone reduces the impact, but it just procrastinates the problems.

web_pipe

Posts with mentions or reviews of web_pipe. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-19.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rbs and web_pipe you can also consider the following projects:

dry-validation - Validation library with type-safe schemas and rules

sorbet - A fast, powerful type checker designed for Ruby

typeprof - An experimental type-level Ruby interpreter for testing and understanding Ruby code

steep - Static type checker for Ruby

rubygems - Library packaging and distribution for Ruby.

Ruby on Rails - Ruby on Rails

RubyGems - The Ruby community's gem hosting service.

ruby-packer - Packing your Ruby application into a single executable.

Hanami - The web, with simplicity.

gem_rbs_collection - A collection of RBS for gems.

rubocop - A Ruby static code analyzer and formatter, based on the community Ruby style guide.

DefinitelyTyped - The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.