Reek
Code smell detector for Ruby (by troessner)
rails_best_practices
a code metric tool for rails projects (by flyerhzm)
| Reek | rails_best_practices | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 1 | |
| 4,083 | 4,173 | |
| 0.1% | 0.0% | |
| 7.5 | 0.0 | |
| about 1 month ago | over 2 years ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT 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.
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 2024-01-17.
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First commits in a Ruby on Rails app
Rubycritic uses reek under the hood so I added a reek config files at .reek.yml with the following content:
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Code Reviewing a Ruby on Rails application.
Reek is a code smell detection tool for Ruby that helps identify potential design issues. It analyzes your codebase and provides feedback on areas that might benefit from refactoring or improvement. Here's an overview of what Reek is and how to use it:
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Improve Code in Your Ruby Application with RubyCritic
$ 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]
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Gems that can identify churn, complexity, duplication and smells.
reek
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Security Risks On Rails: Misconfiguration and Unsafe Integrations
Other useful gems you may take a look at are dawnscanner, reek, and hakiri_toolbelt.
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The best way to review my code for code smells?
Beside RuboCop, I found reek very useful. https://github.com/troessner/reek
rails_best_practices
Posts with mentions or reviews of rails_best_practices.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-06.
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Rails application boilerplate for fast MVP development
add rails_best_practices
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Reek and rails_best_practices 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.
Pronto - Quick automated code review of your changes
Brakeman - A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications
SimpleCov - Code coverage for Ruby with a powerful configuration library and automatic merging of coverage across test suites