The state of Ruby dev tooling
December 13, 2024
28 min
Free
ruby
developer-tooling
developer-experience
language-server-protocol
lsp
editor-integrations
dynamic-languages
rust
tooling
productivity
Description
During the last few years, the Ruby community invested significant effort into improving developer tooling. A lot of this effort has been divergent; trying out many solutions to find out what works best and fits Rubyists expectations.
So where are we at this point? How do we compare to other ecosystems? Is it time to converge, unite efforts and reduce fragmentation? And where are we going next? Let’s analyze the full picture of Ruby tooling and try to answer these questions together.