Reek vs Rubocop

Reek

Code smell detector for Ruby (by troessner)

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

Rubocop

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

#Code Analysis and Metrics #Ruby #Rubocop #Linter #static-code-analysis #code-formatter

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Reek		Rubocop
	Project
4	Mentions	6
3,859	Stars	11,323
-	Growth	-
7.4	Activity	9.8
7 days ago	Latest Commit	almost 2 years 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

Rubocop

Posts with mentions or reviews of Rubocop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-28.

Mais de 10 coisas para fazer antes de solicitar revisão do seu Pull Request
7 projects | dev.to | 28 Jun 2022
RuboCop Turns 10
3 projects | reddit.com/r/ruby | 27 Apr 2022

No, it's not?! The latest version is 1.28.2: https://rubygems.org/gems/rubocop
what ruby or rails open source projects a beginner-to-intermediate developer can easily contribute to?
9 projects | reddit.com/r/ruby | 5 Apr 2021
Refactoring in Ruby
2 projects | reddit.com/r/ruby | 3 Feb 2021

Running rubocop might give you a few tips regarding naming conventions and best practices

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Reek and Rubocop you can also consider the following projects:

Rubycritic - A Ruby code quality reporter

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

Pronto - Quick automated code review of your changes

rails_best_practices - a code metric tool for rails projects

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

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.

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.

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

Rubocop vs Rubycritic

Rubocop vs Brakeman

Rubocop vs Pronto

Rubocop vs rails_best_practices