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# Ruby Best Practices List 📚

A list of well-written Ruby codebases and resources to help you extract and apply best practices in your Ruby apps.

For the exercises, we suggest you follow [this exercise format](https://www.hexdevs.com/posts/learn-ruby-best-practices-with-one-exercise/#one-exercise-to-teach-you-ruby-on-rails-best-practices) to get the most out of this list.

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## Open-Source Projects 💻
- [Upcase by thoughtbot](https://github.com/thoughtbot/upcase)
- [dry-rb/dry-validation](https://github.com/dry-rb/dry-validation)
- [fog](https://github.com/fog/fog)
- [Sustainable Rails Template](https://github.com/davetron5000/rails-app-template-sustainable)

## Articles 📰
- [Learn Ruby on Rails Best Practices With One Exercise 🍝](https://www.hexdevs.com/posts/learn-ruby-best-practices-with-one-exercise/)
- [How to Improve Code Quality on a Ruby on Rails Application](https://www.hexdevs.com/posts/technical-debt-ruby-on-rails/)
- [Sandi Metz' Rules For Developers](https://thoughtbot.com/blog/sandi-metz-rules-for-developers)
- [Breaking Up the Behemoth by Sandi Metz](https://sandimetz.com/blog/2017/9/13/breaking-up-the-behemoth)
- [The Doctrine of Useful Objects](http://docs.eventide-project.org/user-guide/useful-objects.html)

## Papers

- [Defining, Measuring, and Managing Technical Debt](https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/so/2023/03/10109339/1MESXKyAYNO)

## Courses 📺
- [Clean-Code Series - Upcase](https://thoughtbot.com/upcase/clean-code)
- [Sandi Metz's Rules - Upcase](https://thoughtbot.com/upcase/videos/sandi-metzs-rules)

## Books 🔖
- [Ruby Science - The reference for writing fantastic Rails applications](https://github.com/thoughtbot/ruby-science)
- [Practical Object-Oriented Design (POODR)](https://sandimetz.com/products#product-poodr)
- [Sustainable Web Development with Ruby on Rails](https://sustainable-rails.com/)
- [The Mythical Man-Month](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month)
- [Exceptional Ruby](https://store.avdi.codes/l/NWtnk)
- [Refactoring: Ruby Edition](https://martinfowler.com/books/refactoringRubyEd.html)
- [Working Effectively with Legacy Code](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44919.Working_Effectively_with_Legacy_Code)

## Talks🎤
- [Polly want a message - Sandi Metz](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXi_FBrZQiU)
- [Get a Whiff of This - Sandi Metz](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJjHfa5yxlU)
- [Escaping The Tar Pit - Ernesto Tagwerker](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyU6K6eR-_A)
- [Makers vs Menders Talk by M. Scott Ford](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW0BpCThjuM)

## Podcasts 🎧
- [hexdevs podcast - Ruby Code Quality with Ernesto Tagwerker](https://www.hexdevs.com/posts/ruby-code-quality-ernesto-tagwerker/)
- [hexdevs podcast - Building Technical Wealth and Improving Legacy Code with M. Scott Ford](https://www.hexdevs.com/posts/building-technical-wealth-legacy-code-m-scott-ford/)

## Tools 🧰
- [RubyCritic](https://github.com/whitesmith/rubycritic): a gem that wraps around static analysis gems such as Reek, Flay and Flog to provide a quality report of your Ruby code.
- [Skunk](https://github.com/fastruby/skunk): A SkunkScore Calculator for Ruby Code -- Find the most complicated code without test coverage!
- [rails_stats - See more stats about a Rails app](https://github.com/fastruby/rails_stats)
- [metric_fu - A list of code metrics (best practices, code smells, etc.) for Ruby projects](https://github.com/metricfu/metric_fu)
- [Coverband](https://github.com/danmayer/coverband) - Ruby production code coverage collection and reporting (line of code usage)
- [Sonarqube](https://www.sonarqube.org/) - Thousands of automated Static Code Analysis rules, protecting your app on multiple fronts, and guiding your team.
- [CodeScene](https://codescene.com/) - One tool to visualise, understand and improve your software when it comes to code, knowledge and people behind it. 
- [Code Quality Tools - a massive list of code quality tools and metrics for Ruby projects](https://github.com/metricfu/metric_fu/wiki/Code-Tools)

## Challenges 🛠️
- [The Code Quality Challenge](https://tuple.app/code-quality-challenge)

## Cheat Sheets 🔍
- [Smells to Refactorings Quick Reference Guide](https://www.industriallogic.com/img/blog/2005/09/smellstorefactorings.pdf)

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List compiled by [hexdevs](https://www.hexdevs.com).
Have a suggestion or a question? Discussions are welcomed [here](https://github.com/hexdevs/ruby-best-practices-list/discussions/1).