Automatic code quality tool for Ruby?

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Will Sargent picture Will Sargent · Sep 10, 2008 · Viewed 11.1k times · Source

One thing I really miss about Java is the tool support. FindBugs, Checkstyle and PMD made for a holy trinity of code quality metrics and automatic bug checking.

Is there anything that will check for simple bugs and / or style violations of Ruby code? Bonus points if I can adapt it for frameworks such as Rails so that Rails idioms are adhered to.

Answer

Austin Moody picture Austin Moody · Sep 11, 2008

I've recently started looking for something like this for Ruby. What I've run across so far:

These might be places to start. Unfortunately I haven't used any of the three enough yet to offer a good opinion.

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