During the last few years, the Ruby community invested significant effort into improving developer tooling. A lot of this effort has been divergent; trying out many solutions to find out what works best and fits Rubyists expectations.

So where are we at this point? How do we compare to other ecosystems? Is it time to converge, unite efforts and reduce fragmentation? And where are we going next? Let’s analyze the full picture of Ruby developer tooling and try to answer these questions together.