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Introducing Rubydex linter: structural checks for Ruby projects

My teammate Vini introduced it in more detail in One engine, many tools — Introducing Rubydex. Rubydex linter is Rubydex's built-in linter for writing project-specific structural rules that use Rubydex's understanding of a codebase.

Introducing Rubydex linter: structural checks for Ruby projects

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My teammate Vini introduced it in more detail in One engine, many tools — Introducing Rubydex.

Rubydex linter is Rubydex's built-in linter for writing project-specific structural rules that use Rubydex's understanding of a codebase.

Why structural linting Many checks can be decided by reading one file, as most RuboCop cops do.

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My teammate Vini introduced it in more detail in One engine, many tools — Introducing Rubydex. Rubydex linter is Rubydex's built-in linter for writing project-specific structural rules that use Rubydex's understanding of a codebase. Why structural linting Many checks can be decided by reading one file, as most RuboCop cops do.

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  • In large codebases, we sometimes need to require or prohibit patterns that span several files.
  • Consider this example: a project has two modules, LegacyFooHelper and FooHelper, that provide different implementations of the same foo method.

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What is Rubydex linter Rubydex is a static analysis toolkit for Ruby.

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