Ernest Tagwerker on Escaping the Tar Pit

Ruby was invented with programmer's happiness in mind. That's why I love the language, but I've found so many projects that have led me to have my doubts about it.

It is so hard to judge code quality before you take on a project. Most of the time you have zero visibility before you accept a job offer. Wouldn't it be great if you could ask the company: What's the Stink Score™ of the application I'll be maintaining?

The tools that have been published in the Ruby community are great, but there is not one single metric that we can use to judge the quality of our applications. This talk is an attempt to start a conversation around this topic: Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had one algorithm to judge code quality?

I know that there are many commercial tools out there (e.g. Code Climate) and I really like them, but this talk is not about them. It's about the tools that are already available and how we can use them to make our lives even happier!

Ernesto has presented at RubyConf 2019 and will be presenting at RubyConf Australia 2020