dev_tools

set of my favourite dev tools (mostly rails-related)

rails

logs

logs should be:

• pretty!
• colorful!
• informative!

yell-rails

• based on YELL - Your Extensible Logging Library
• https://github.com/rudionrails/yell-rails
• HOWTO: https://github.com/rudionrails/yell/wiki/101-formatting-log-messages
• easy installation
• easy to modify
• get what you want

console

pry

• https://github.com/pry/pry
• want more?
  • take allthethings!
  • https://github.com/nixme/jazz_hands
• debugging
• syntax highlighting
• editing methods from console

error pages

better_errors

• stack trace is good, probably good enough
• but better_errors gem does it simply better
  • https://github.com/charliesome/better_errors
  • https://github.com/banister/binding_of_caller
• entire environment available
• there is no point to not use this

routes

sextant

• part of rails 4
• go to /rails/routes
• https://github.com/schneems/sextant
• one of my favourite PRs rails/rails#9001 (GIF inside!)

views

xray-rails

• you’re new in project
• you want to find this partial
• 'inspect element' and looking for HTML structure?
• no need to!
• https://github.com/brentd/xray-rails
• ruby 1.9 :/
• demo

static code analysis

rubocop

• community style guide
• https://github.com/bbatsov/rubocop/
• sublime/vim plugins available

reek

• code smells
• https://github.com/troessner/reek

flog

• easy to read pain report
• https://github.com/seattlerb/flog

flay

• find duplications
• https://github.com/seattlerb/flay

rails_best_practices

• all rails best practices
• https://github.com/railsbp/rails_best_practices

excellent

• https://github.com/simplabs/excellent

bullet

• help to kill N+1 queries and unused eager loading
• https://github.com/flyerhzm/bullet

other useful tools

annotate_models

• https://github.com/ctran/annotate_models
• add a comment summarizing the current schema to the top or bottom of each of your model
• no need to open schema.rb

miniprofiler

• http://miniprofiler.com/

codeclimate

• free for open source projects
• https://codeclimate.com/

dash

• offline documentation for ruby, jquery, ...
• http://kapeli.com/dash

editor plugins (sublime)

githubinator

• copy current line and shows a link to this line on github
• https://github.com/ehamiter/ST2-GitHubinator

'CTags'

• let you quickly navigate to code definitons (classes, methods, etc.)
• https://github.com/SublimeText/CTags
• if you have sublime 3 - it's already there :)

'additional resources'

• [http://blog.codeclimate.com/blog/2012/06/21/sublime-text-2-for-ruby/](Sublime configuration for Ruby developers)