Improve Code in Your Ruby Application with RubyCritic

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  • Rubycritic

    A Ruby code quality reporter

    You should consider using RubyCritic if you want a single place to review code improvements for your project. Including RubyCritic in your development process will certainly reduce the time a development team spends working on technical debts. Most technical debts will be mapped out at development time.

  • Reek

    Code smell detector for Ruby

    $ 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]

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • Byebug

    Debugging in Ruby 2

    byebug - this elevates debugging Ruby applications. It allows you to run a program line by line, add breakpoints, and evaluate and track values at runtime. If you still use puts for debugging, it's time you get to know Byebug's features and commands.

  • rubocop

    A Ruby static code analyzer and formatter, based on the community Ruby style guide.

    rubocop - a linter for Ruby code that helps you follow a style guide used by the Ruby community, or even apply your own code style. It's very useful to set standards in your team and avoid silly conflicts about spaces and tabs.

  • SimpleCov

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

    SimpleCov - a tool to check Ruby application code coverage. You can configure it to run alongside your tests. It provides metrics on code coverage so that you can identify what you need to pay attention to and where to invest your time to create better test cases.

  • 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.

    Flog checks how difficult your code is to test. It sets a complexity score for each line of code and sums up the score for each method and class.

  • 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.

    Flay identifies structural Ruby code similarities, including:

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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