Looking for a Code review tool for ruby(checkstyle)

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I have been looking around for something like checkstyle (Java code review tool) for ruby. http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/availablechecks.html Has anyone here ever come across a similar dilema wherein we need to enforce the quality of ruby code written in different projects. What strategy could we adopt? Plan B would be to maybe use a web based code review tool with manual reviews, but thats really going back.

cheers...

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Hi Jet,    This is the only one I could find, haven't tried it yet, but it seems promising, if a bit young:

http://github.com/martinjandrews/roodi/tree

Jet wrote:

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Hi Jet, This is the only one I could find, haven't tried it yet, but it seems promising, if a bit young:

http://github.com/martinjandrews/roodi/tree

Metric_fu includes roodi - it's a decent place to start.

Jet wrote: > I have been looking around for something like checkstyle (Java code > review tool) for ruby. >http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/availablechecks.html

I've personally found that (as Ryan suggested) the best "review" is a human reading the code. This is easier in Ruby than in Java, since there's considerably less visual noise in a well-written block of Ruby.

The metric_fu tools do identify several of the remaining issues (code duplication, excessive cyclomatic complexity,etc) but aren't really intended to be used proscriptively (in other words, making a hard rule "no complexity ratings over 5 EVAR!" will lead to problems) but rather as a roadmap for detailed human review.

--Matt Jones