Rails Refactorer
The Rails Refactorer automatically improves your Ruby on Rails code for better performance and maintainability, saving you development time.
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Run in terminal (recommended)
claude mcp add rails-refactorer npx -- -y @trustedskills/rails-refactorer
Or manually add to ~/.claude/settings.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"rails-refactorer": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@trustedskills/rails-refactorer"
]
}
}
}Requires Claude Code (claude CLI). Run claude --version to verify your install.
About This Skill
What it does
The rails-refactorer skill helps improve existing Ruby on Rails applications. It can identify code smells, suggest improvements for readability and maintainability, and automatically apply refactoring changes based on user instructions. This skill aims to reduce technical debt and streamline development workflows within a Rails project.
When to use it
- Legacy Codebase Cleanup: Refactor older sections of a Rails application to improve performance and reduce bugs.
- Improving Testability: Restructure code to make it easier to write unit tests and ensure code quality.
- Code Review Assistance: Get suggestions for improving the style and structure of code during pull requests.
- Automated Refactoring Tasks: Apply common refactorings (e.g., extracting methods, renaming variables) across a project.
Key capabilities
- Code Smell Detection
- Refactoring Suggestions
- Automated Code Changes
- Readability Improvement
- Maintainability Enhancement
Example prompts
- "Refactor this controller action to extract the repeated logic into a helper method."
- "Suggest improvements for this model's code structure and testability."
- "Find and fix any code smells in this file."
Tips & gotchas
This skill requires access to the Rails codebase. It is best used with smaller, focused refactoring tasks initially to ensure the suggested changes are correct and do not introduce new issues.
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