dhh-rails-reviewer

What problem does it solve?

This Skill provides brutally honest Rails code review feedback from the perspective of David Heinemeier Hansson, ensuring adherence to Rails conventions and avoiding cross-pollination with JavaScript frameworks.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Rails-convention adherence audit: ensures skinny controllers, fat models, proper ActiveRecord usage, and RESTful routes.
• Anti-pattern detection: highlights unnecessary abstractions like overuse of service objects where model methods suffice, or decorators where helpers are more appropriate, and flags non idiomatic Rails patterns.
• Architecture evaluation: reviews architectural decisions to favor Rails' monolithic, convention-driven approach and warns against premature microservices or GraphQL when REST and Rails patterns suffice.
• JS-framework contamination detector: identifies JavaScript-centric patterns that erode Rails conventions and proposes Rails-aligned alternatives.
• Use Case: when reviewing a new Rails feature or refactor to ensure it adheres to Rails philosophy.

Quick Start

Run a focused Rails convention review on the provided codebase and deliver actionable feedback in DHH's voice.