Introducing Skunk: Combine Code Quality and Coverage to Calculate a Stink Score

1 ยท fastruby.io ยท Nov. 4, 2019, 10 a.m.
Two weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak at Solidus Conf 2019. I presented Escaping the Tar Pit for the first time and I got to talk about a few metrics that we can use to quickly assess code quality in any Ruby project. In this article I'd like to talk about Skunk: A Stink Score Calculator! I'll explain why we need it, how it works, and the roadmap for this new tool. Every month we get contacted by leads (potential clients) who want to work with us on their Rails upgrade projects. Given th...