Developer Experience in Ruby

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1. Developer Experience in Ruby Maicol Bentancor
2. —ChatGPT “Developer experience is the sum of all interactions that developers have with the tools, technologies, and processes they use to build software. It aims to make these interactions enjoyable and efficient, empowering developers to turn their ideas into high-quality code with ease.”
3. What is DX • A great developer experience gets out of the way, leaving the developer in a flow state. DX allows developers to be more effective • Developers who find good DX are happier, promote more, and use their product longer • Usually provided by DevOps, platform teams, managers and/or even you if you don’t have those resources
4. Ruby Ecosystem
5. Editors • Your best editor is the one you know best
6. Editors (sorry vim & friends) OSS Pricing Plugins and customizati on Performan ce/Memory consumpti on Git Copilot Debugger Popularity Shortcuts Code navigati on/Code search ✅ 😎 💯 🔋 👍 👍 👎 43% 👎 👎 ⛔ 💵 👍 🪫 👍 💯 19% 👍 💯
7. Tools Runners Meta Metrics flay flog reek pronto Codacy CodeClimate Danger rubrycritic CodeClimate Codacy Maintainability rubocop packwerk Hound
10. My friend GPT
11. My friend GPT Refactors Code Reviews Find bugs/flakys
12. AI tools recommendations • Don’t use business data or sensitive information • Use generated code with caution ◦ In one study, researchers produced 1,689 programs with Copilot, of which 40% were vulnerable to attack. • If you disagree with Copilot or fear the copyleft pollution in your codebase ◦ There are tools that blocks services/extensions like Kolide ◦ You can also disable sending my code snippets
13. And the list goes on.. Environment CI Process Documentation Services/CLI Ergonomics
14. Conclusions and last thoughts Save $$$ and keep devs happy Nice to have in small teams, mandatory in bigger ones Now IA plays a big role in DX Ruby focuses on DX and has a great ecosystem
15. Questions?