ruby-science
The reference for writing fantastic Rails applications (by thoughtbot)
alba
Alba is a JSON serializer for Ruby, JRuby and TruffleRuby. (by okuramasafumi)
| ruby-science | alba | |
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| 11 | 12 | |
| 639 | 1,025 | |
| 0.2% | 0.8% | |
| 1.1 | 9.1 | |
| about 2 months ago | 8 days ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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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.
ruby-science
Posts with mentions or reviews of ruby-science.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-16.
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Flog-Driven Development
So, bigger is worse, but how big is bad? At what number should you take action? Thoughtbot's Ruby Science book suggests a method is long or complex with a flog score above 10. It also posits that a class is long or complex with a flog score above 50.
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Where can I learn to deliver a proper solution?
Ruby Science - it's a free book by thoughtbot. It might be the most short term beneficial thing honestly. It just points out all of these various practical patterns you can immediate use to increase code quality.
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Senior level resources like this for Ruby/Rails
I think you would appreciate Ruby Science. I love this book, it's extremely practical.
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If you want to learn OOP, learn Ruby. -some comments about Ruby.
Well, if you're programming in Ruby, a great place to start is the Ruby Science book by ThoughtBot. It's a bottom-up approach to improving your code by identifying code smells and applying OO principles to fix them. Identifying smells in your own code will lead you to the OO principles that you need to learn to build your OO skills.
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How to be a better Rails developer?
Read Ruby science to learn about code smells and good architecture.
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I'm a front-end dev currently being asked to work on a Rails API backend. What are some good resources to get comfortable with the language and the framework?
It's a bit more advanced, but I like Ruby Science by thoughtbot.
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Any advance ruby/rails book to read?
Check out Ruby Science by Thoughtbot which I found useful at your stage.
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What are the top 10 software engineer things they don't teach you in school?
Code smells. Ruby science is a good one for Ruby.
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Who's creating the best content to help Ruby/Rails developers improve?
Currnetly reading ruby science. 200+ page guide on code smells and solutions.
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RoR Resources
This book is old but it's still very relevant https://github.com/thoughtbot/ruby-science. Also check out thoughtbot's blog and www.gorails.com
alba
Posts with mentions or reviews of alba.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-04-29.
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Building High Performance Ruby REST APIs with Rage
Since our Todo items are attached to groups, and we’d like to have structured JSON responses where each item is nested within a group, we will build our serializers with Alba. Let’s update the Gemfile:
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[Rails] How We Reduced API Response Rendering Time by 30%
Other candidates included the following gems such as alba, active_model_serializers, and jsonapi-serializer. Considering team-wide adoption and maintenance, we preferred gems with syntax similar to Jbuilder if possible.
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Recommended Controllers Serializer Gem?
alba looks promising
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Efficient JSON Serialization with Blueprinter for Ruby on Rails
I have appreciated this one too: https://github.com/okuramasafumi/alba
- Love oss and ruby in particular? Suggest maintainers for our substack!
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How to combine active record and active storage together in controller?
I personally use https://github.com/okuramasafumi/alba and it would go something like this:
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I'm a front-end dev currently being asked to work on a Rails API backend. What are some good resources to get comfortable with the language and the framework?
Alba gem for JSON serializer
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What are you using for API JSON serialization in 2022?
I really like Alba.
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Show HN: Shale – a Ruby object mapper and serializer for JSON, YAML and XML
Have you checked out Alba [0]? I think it’s one of the better options right now.
[0]: https://github.com/okuramasafumi/alba
- including join data for many-to-many relations in controller#index
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ruby-science and alba you can also consider the following projects:
real-world-rails - Real World Rails applications and their open source codebases for developers to learn from
Blueprinter - Simple, Fast, and Declarative Serialization Library for Ruby
upcase - Sharpen your programming skills.
jsonapi-serializer - A fast JSON:API serializer for Ruby (fork of Netflix/fast_jsonapi)
learn-ruby - Learning resources for Ruby, Rails, and related skills.
ruby - Exercism exercises in Ruby.