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Brakeman vs Hound: What are the differences?
What is Brakeman? A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications. Free static analysis security tool for Ruby on Rails. Zero-setup security scans for Rails applications based on source code analysis.
What is Hound? A hosted service that comments on Ruby style guide violations in your GitHub pull requests. Take care of pesky code reviews with a trusty Hound. Hound reviews GitHub pull requests for style guide violations.
Brakeman and Hound can be categorized as "Code Review" tools.
Brakeman and Hound are both open source tools. It seems that Brakeman with 5.42K GitHub stars and 555 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Hound with 1.72K GitHub stars and 393 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Hound has a broader approval, being mentioned in 10 company stacks & 3 developers stacks; compared to Brakeman, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
Pros of Brakeman
Pros of Hound
- Comments on style so I don't have to4
- Easy configuration3
- Fast3
- Free for OSS2
- Inline comments2