Linting Ruby

01 Table of contents

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1. Welcome
   Who this book is for, what it is about, how to read it.
2. Just Ruby
   Writing our first automated code check with just Ruby.
3. Spelling mistakes
   By far, more popular mistakes are spelling mistakes, and libraries like misspel help to solve those.
4. Formatters
   Formatting code on the fly! This is mostly about RuboCop, but also other alternatives.

5. Linters

   Linting with RuboCop is easy. But there are a lot of other linters you might want to consider for a typical Rails project.
6. Performance
   It's easy to keep a tap on N+1 queries or be on high alert about more effective implementations.
7. Security
   It's easy to check your dependencies, look for insecure code practices, detect malware, and so on.
8. Safe migrations
   Deploying gets tricky with a lot of data in the DB. How to use strong_migrations and similar gems. What things you should be looking into as well.
9. Linting tests
   How to ensure that integration and unit tests are in a healthy state and easy to maintain.
10. Types
    How to introduce type checks for your code, what are the advantages.