Railscheck project home page
This project is (or will be) a best effort semi-static verifier for your Ruby on Rails projects. Delivered as a Ruby gem it provides a shell command task "railscheck" that you can run against your Rails projects to test for a number of typical bugs, potential problems and inconsistencies.
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- Rails Composer
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Documenting your Rails project's Node.js version in .nvmrc
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Very compatible default
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