Agent Skills: RubyCritic Code Quality Analysis

Integrate RubyCritic to analyze Ruby code quality and maintain high standards throughout development. Use when working on Ruby projects to check code smells, complexity, and duplication. Triggers include creating/editing Ruby files, refactoring code, reviewing code quality, or when user requests code analysis or quality checks.

UncategorizedID: el-feo/ai-context/rubycritic

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pnpm dlx add-skill https://github.com/el-feo/ai-context/tree/HEAD/plugins/ruby-rails/skills/rubycritic

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Name
rubycritic
Description
Integrate RubyCritic to analyze Ruby code quality and maintain high standards throughout development. Use when working on Ruby projects to check code smells, complexity, and duplication. Triggers include creating/editing Ruby files, refactoring code, reviewing code quality, or when user requests code analysis or quality checks.

RubyCritic Code Quality Analysis

Quick Start

Run quality check on Ruby files:

scripts/check_quality.sh [path/to/ruby/files]

Analyzes the current directory if no path provided. Auto-installs RubyCritic if missing.

Check recently modified files:

scripts/check_quality.sh $(git diff --name-only | grep '\.rb$')

Workflow

Run RubyCritic automatically:

  • After creating new Ruby files or classes
  • After implementing complex methods (>10 lines)
  • After refactoring existing code
  • Before marking tasks as complete

Skip for: simple variable renames, comment changes, minor formatting.

Interpreting Results

  • Score 90+: Good. Score 95+ is excellent.
  • Score 80-89: Consider refactoring.
  • Below 80: Prioritize improvements.
  • File ratings: A/B acceptable, C needs attention, D/F requires refactoring.

RubyCritic combines three analyzers:

  • Reek (code smells) - design and readability issues
  • Flog (complexity) - overly complex methods
  • Flay (duplication) - repeated code patterns

Responding to Issues

Fix in priority order: high complexity > duplication > code smells > style.

Fix one issue at a time, re-run after each fix, verify score improves.

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