Reek vs Flog

Reek

Code smell detector for Ruby (by troessner)

#Code Analysis and Metrics #Smell #Ruby #smell-warnings #smell-detector #Static Analysis #Linters #Quality #Parsing

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)

#Code Analysis and Metrics

Source Code

ruby.sadi.st

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Reek		Flog
	Project
4	Mentions	4
3,874	Stars	820
-	Growth	2.1%
7.1	Activity	5.3
10 days ago	Latest Commit	9 months ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
MIT License	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.

Reek

Posts with mentions or reviews of Reek. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-26.

Improve Code in Your Ruby Application with RubyCritic
7 projects | dev.to | 26 Oct 2022

$ reek app/controllers/erp/orders_controller.rb Inspecting 1 file(s): S app/controllers/erp/orders_controller.rb -- 1 warning: [91]:UncommunicativeVariableName: Erp::OrdersController#create has the variable name 'e' [https://github.com/troessner/reek/blob/v6.1.1/docs/Uncommunicative-Variable-Name.md]
Gems that can identify churn, complexity, duplication and smells.
5 projects | reddit.com/r/rails | 6 Aug 2022

reek
Security Risks On Rails: Misconfiguration and Unsafe Integrations
8 projects | dev.to | 26 Jan 2022

Other useful gems you may take a look at are dawnscanner, reek, and hakiri_toolbelt.
The best way to review my code for code smells?
3 projects | reddit.com/r/ruby | 6 Apr 2021

Beside RuboCop, I found reek very useful. https://github.com/troessner/reek

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 2022-10-26.

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 | reddit.com/r/rails | 6 Aug 2022

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Reek 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.

Rubycritic - A Ruby code quality reporter

rails_best_practices - a code metric tool for rails projects

Pronto - Quick automated code review of your changes

Brakeman - A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications

Cane - Code quality threshold checking as part of your build

bundler-leak - Known-leaky gems verification for bundler: `bundle leak` to check your app and find leaky gems in your Gemfile :gem::droplet:

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