Xray vs looksee

Xray

☠️ A development tool that reveals your UI's bones (by brentd)

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looksee

Supercharged method introspection in IRB (by oggy)

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Xray		looksee
	Project
4	Mentions	1
1,219	Stars	365
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
Ruby	Language	C
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.

Xray

Posts with mentions or reviews of Xray. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-11.

Introducing rails-template-inspector: Open your view files by clicking browser elements
3 projects | dev.to | 11 Jul 2022

Unlike xray-rails, it supports the latest Rails environment.
Is this a good idea (idea for a new gem)
1 project | /r/rails | 23 Feb 2022

Sounds like xray.
Must have ruby gems in the development environment to increase productivity.
2 projects | /r/ruby | 26 Apr 2021

ruby gem 'xray-rails', git: 'https://github.com/brentd/xray-rails.git', branch: 'bugs/ruby-3.0.0'
https://np.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/myq9dl/must_have_ruby_gems_in_the_development/gvxa1wq/
1 project | /r/backtickbot | 26 Apr 2021

I am using the bugs/ruby-3.0.0 branch with rails 6.1.1

looksee

Posts with mentions or reviews of looksee. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-26.

Must have ruby gems in the development environment to increase productivity.
2 projects | /r/ruby | 26 Apr 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Xray and looksee you can also consider the following projects:

Seeing Is Believing - Displays the results of every line of code in your file

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Leaky Gems - A list of Ruby gems that have known memory leaks (and issues)

Rails Footnotes - Every Rails page has footnotes that gives information about your application and links back to your editor

Byebug - Debugging in Ruby 2

did_you_mean - The gem that has been saving people from typos since 2014

Rbcat

Pry Byebug - Step-by-step debugging and stack navigation in Pry

ruby_jard - Just Another Ruby Debugger. Provide a rich Terminal UI that visualizes everything your need, navigates your program with pleasure, stops at matter places only, reduces manual and mental efforts. You can now focus on real debugging.

FlowTrace - Brand new remote app inspecting tool. Declare feature steps and receive params, stack trace and whatever you want.

eyeloupe - The elegant Rails debug assistant. AI powered.

rails-template-inspector