The Missing Ruby Code Formatter

Ever since Go made popular the idea of having one canonical way of formatting the code for a particular programming language (by bundling the gofmt tool with the language), programmers in every community have been trying (with various degree of success) to replicate this. JavaScript’s Prettier became a huge hit and is very widely used today. Elixir 1.6 bundled a standard formatter out of the box. Many similar initiatives are underway.In the Ruby community the quest for the One True Formatter has been going on for quite a while and at this point there are already several projects to chose from:.