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Ryan Davis

zenspider
Seattle, WA

Hi! I'm Ryan Davis, also known as "zenspider" in the ruby/github community. I'm a developer's developer. I'm the author of many gems used by developers and companies throughout the ruby ecosystem (eg minitest, flog, flay, etc). 1% of all ruby gem downloads are of my software. Recently, I figured out that I have done my 1,000th gem release! I also maintain or contribute to numerous other projects (eg Ruby, enh-ruby-mode, Rails, etc).

This will allow me to transparently and ethically ask for contributions to enable me to focus my software and supporting others on theirs. With your contributions, I can keep creating my work, give talks, and help others write the software they really want to write.

If you're still wondering why you might want to support my open source development, I wrote a thing titled "The Art of Asking".

Thank you so much for even considering supporting my work.

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@therealadam
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@liijunwei
@tomash
@fnando
@jhulten
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Past sponsors 17

@oreoshake
@karimmtarek
@imajes
@brandondees
@andreimaxim
@ezkl
@kangkyu
@AdrienGiboire
@ombulabs
@la-ruby
@xahmd
@xN5y
@joelparkerhenderson
@newrelic
@github
@pooriajr
@rsanheim

Featured work

  1. zenspider/enhanced-ruby-mode

    An enhanced ruby-mode for Emacs that uses Ripper in ruby 1.9+ to highlight and indent the source code

    Emacs Lisp 215
  2. seattlerb/flog

    Flog reports the most tortured code in an easy to read pain report. The higher the score, the more pain the code is in.

    Ruby 912
  3. seattlerb/flay

    Flay analyzes code for structural similarities. Differences in literal values, variable, class, method names, whitespace, programming style, braces vs do/end, etc are all ignored.

    Ruby 731
  4. seattlerb/debride

    Analyze code for potentially uncalled / dead methods, now with auto-removal.

    Ruby 702
  5. seattlerb/ruby_parser

    ruby_parser is a ruby parser written in pure ruby. It outputs s-expressions which can be manipulated and converted back to ruby via the ruby2ruby gem.

    Ruby 474
  6. minitest/minitest

    minitest provides a complete suite of testing facilities supporting TDD, BDD, mocking, and benchmarking.

    Ruby 3,248

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