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@penelope_zone ✨Introducing✨ rubyfmt

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@penelope_zone

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@penelope_zone Updates

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@penelope_zone This is gonna get real emotional

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@penelope_zone Penelope She/Her Trans Woman

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@penelope_zone Ruby Central Director

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@penelope_zone No longer an RSpec maintainer

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@penelope_zone Thanks to Jon, Myron, Andy, and David

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@penelope_zone Rubyfmt is gonna be my open source focus for the next while

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@penelope_zone What is Rubyfmt?

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@penelope_zone @penelope_zone

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@penelope_zone

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@penelope_zone

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@penelope_zone x

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@penelope_zone I can’t unsee this

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@penelope_zone Ruby autoformatter

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@penelope_zone No formatting related configuration options

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@penelope_zone “Unix tool”

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@penelope_zone stdin/file name

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@penelope_zone stdout/in place

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@penelope_zone Not a gem!

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@penelope_zone Probably > 6 months until something you can use daily

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@penelope_zone Why are you doing this?

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@penelope_zone Principle

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@penelope_zone "TDD results in better code"

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@penelope_zone This is another way of discussing tradeoffs

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@penelope_zone My Principles

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@penelope_zone Do one thing well Correctness beats simplicity Speed is needed at any cost

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@penelope_zone Do one thing well

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@penelope_zone I u Rubocop team

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@penelope_zone Formatting Metrics Linting Naming Security Style Bundler Gemspec Rails

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@penelope_zone Formatting Metrics Linting Naming Security Style Bundler Gemspec Rails

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@penelope_zone Formatting Metrics Linting Naming Security Style Bundler Gemspec Rails

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@penelope_zone $%&%'()*%%*+,)$%&%)%('- )'%$*($,%&%'%(&,-$()+$- +-%)$&+'')-%',*&)$&&'(% )$)-)&$*(+$%'-)&%+)*$'$ &*%)'-%$'-'$(*-(--$,)-- %&*,$+&*$*,))$)**,()'(* ,)++$-'&*'*'-*$)(-$($(+ '(%))$$),-$$+*$*(,%*(%- -&$(**,+&+'(&,,+)'&$)')

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@penelope_zone

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@penelope_zone Rubyformat is literally a different kind of tool

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@penelope_zone Doing one thing extremely well

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@penelope_zone By definition configuration options imply doing multiple things

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@penelope_zone Support every possible combination

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@penelope_zone Support every possible combination ❌

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@penelope_zone Support one consistent style ✅

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@penelope_zone bars = if foo baz else qux end

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@penelope_zone bars = if foo baz else qux end

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@penelope_zone bars = if foo baz else qux end

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@penelope_zone bars = “one” \ “two”

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@penelope_zone bars = “one” \ “two”

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@penelope_zone bars = “one” \ “two”

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@penelope_zone Rubyfmt always indents two relative to the parent construct

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@penelope_zone bars = if foo baz else qux end

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@penelope_zone bars = “one” \ “two”

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@penelope_zone This is a tradeoff

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@penelope_zone Correctness beats simplicity

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@penelope_zone How do you parse Ruby?

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@penelope_zone The parser output is really simple to deal with

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@penelope_zone $ srb tc -p parse-tree -e 'a' Send { receiver = NULL method = args = [ ] }

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@penelope_zone $ srb tc -p parse-tree -e ‘a(1)’ Send { receiver = NULL method = args = [ Integer { val = "1" } ] }

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@penelope_zone For like 99% of Ruby programs this will never be a problem

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@penelope_zone I refuse to build an auto formatter which could parse your program wrong

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@penelope_zone Disadvantages

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@penelope_zone Ripper requires a booted Ruby interpreter

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@penelope_zone Running Ruby is slower than not running Ruby

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@penelope_zone Ripper's output is painful

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@penelope_zone $ rr 'a' [:program, [[:vcall, [:@ident, "a", [1, 0]]]]]

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@penelope_zone $ rr 'a' [:program, [[:method_add_arg, [:fcall, [:@ident, "a", [1, 0]]], [:arg_paren, [:args_add_block, [[:@int, "1", [1, 2]]], false]]]]]

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@penelope_zone Rubyfmt uses ripper to ensure compatibility

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@penelope_zone Building against this is 90% of the dev time

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@penelope_zone I would be done if I used whitequark

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@penelope_zone I may end up separating Ripper from the Ruby interpreter as a general purpose tool

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@penelope_zone It’s totally a good thing that Sorbet and Rubocop did not do this

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@penelope_zone Speed is needed at any cost

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@penelope_zone Gofmt executes on 25ms on even very large files

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@penelope_zone How fast is fast enough?

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@penelope_zone 16ms

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@penelope_zone 16ms 16ms 16ms 16ms 16ms 16ms 16ms 100ms

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@penelope_zone 100ms on 3k lines of Ruby code is the goal

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@penelope_zone ruby —disable=gems -e ‘’

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@penelope_zone 16ms 16ms Ruby boot 25ms

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@penelope_zone ruby -e ‘'

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@penelope_zone 16ms 16ms Ruby boot with gems 75ms 16ms 16ms 16ms

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@penelope_zone We can’t run the parser in the remaining 25ms

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@penelope_zone So we can't use gems

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@penelope_zone Speed is needed at any cost

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@penelope_zone 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100

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@penelope_zone bundle exec

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@penelope_zone 100m 100m 100m 100m 100m 100m 100m 100m Bundler boot 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100

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@penelope_zone So we definitely can’t use bundler

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@penelope_zone bundle exec rubocop <4 line file> 800ms 100m 100m 100m 100m 100m 100m 100m 100m Bundler boot Rubocop 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100

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@penelope_zone And we definitely can’t inherit from Rubocop

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@penelope_zone So what does it look like today?

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@penelope_zone So the complete Ruby version isn’t fast enough

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@penelope_zone Parse.y isn’t really separable from the ruby interpreter

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@penelope_zone ❤

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@penelope_zone The initial test of the Rust version is that it is fast enough

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@penelope_zone I am essentially building an entire set of tooling in Rust to work with Ruby source code

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@penelope_zone Summary

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@penelope_zone Do one thing well Correctness beats simplicity Speed is needed at any cost

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@penelope_zone These principles imply a tonne of work

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@penelope_zone Rubyfmt is the most technically complex project I have ever worked on

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@penelope_zone Sweating the details

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@penelope_zone Thanks to

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@penelope_zone https://github.com/ penelopezone/rubyfmt

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@penelope_zone That’s all @penelope_zone [email protected]