ruby-science
The reference for writing fantastic Rails applications (by thoughtbot)
real-world-rails
Real World Rails applications and their open source codebases for developers to learn from (by eliotsykes)
| ruby-science | real-world-rails | |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | 4 | |
| 646 | 1,824 | |
| 0.2% | 0.2% | |
| 1.1 | 0.0 | |
| about 1 year ago | about 1 month 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
real-world-rails
Posts with mentions or reviews of real-world-rails.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-17.
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How to be a better Rails developer?
Here's 100 projects in 1 which I found quite useful too: https://github.com/eliotsykes/real-world-rails
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Anyone know any model rails projects?
Most people use https://github.com/eliotsykes/real-world-rails when they need something on a large codebase, ex: a new cop. Maybe it can be useful in your case too!
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216+ Ruby on Rails Open Source Applications You Can Use as a Reference
Not yet, the latest app is on Rails 6.1.4. But there is an open PR to add railsdevs, which is running Rails 7. So you might want to check it out!
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Any decent large Rails codebases to look over?
real-world-rails has a giant list of apps, the cool thing is that each app repository is a submodule of the main project, so you can just pull all of them and easily search/grep for specific things and compare implementations.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ruby-science and real-world-rails you can also consider the following projects:
alba - Alba is a JSON serializer for Ruby, JRuby and TruffleRuby.
charting-library-examples - Examples of Charting Library integrations with other libraries, frameworks and data transports
learn-ruby - Learning resources for Ruby, Rails, and related skills.
osem - Open Source Event Manager. An event management tool tailored to Free and Open Source Software conferences.
learn-ruby-and-cs - Books and other resources for learning Ruby and computer science. [Moved to: https://github.com/fpsvogel/learn-ruby]
WebsiteOne - A website for Agile Ventures