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Top 10 Ruby Static Analysis Projects
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If you're looking for static typing a dynamic language is going to be a poor fit. I find a place for both. I love Rust, but trying to write a tool that consumed a GraphQL API with was a brutal exercise in frustation. I'd say that goes for typing of JSON or YAML or whatever structured format in general. It's refreshing being able to just work with data in the form I already know it's in. Ruby can be an incredibly productive language to work with.
If you're looking for static analysis in general, please note that there are mature tools available. Rubocop¹ is probably the most popular and allows for linting and code formatting. Brakeman² is a vulnerability scanner for Rails. Sorbet³ is a static type checker.
The tooling is there if you want to try things out. But, if you want a statically typed language then that's a debate that's been going since the dawn of programming language design. I doubt it's going to get resolved in this thread.
¹ - https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop
² - https://brakemanscanner.org/
³ - https://sorbet.org/
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One of the key outcomes of my master's thesis was the development of an extendable solution for Code Clone Detection (CCD), primarily focused on code and tested with undergraduates at my university [1]. Although I didn't have time to complete the adapter for JPlag, I believe it would be highly beneficial.
Interestingly, whenever I discussed my thesis, the first reaction from others often revolved around moral concerns.
[1] https://github.com/studyfair/studyfair
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Static Analysis projects in Ruby? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | Brakeman | 7,091 |
| 2 | Reek | 4,071 |
| 3 | Rubycritic | 3,389 |
| 4 | i18n-tasks | 2,100 |
| 5 | mutant | 1,967 |
| 6 | cfn_nag | 1,270 |
| 7 | rubocop-rspec | 821 |
| 8 | krane | 702 |
| 9 | metrics_collector | 3 |
| 10 | studyfair | 0 |
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