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Code Climate vs Review Board: What are the differences?

What is Code Climate? Automated Ruby Code Review. After each Git push, Code Climate analyzes your code for complexity, duplication, and common smells to determine changes in quality and surface technical debt hotspots.

What is Review Board? Stress-free code review for teams of all sizes. Review Board is an open source, web-based code and document review tool built to help companies, open source projects, and other organizations keep their quality high and their bug count low.

Code Climate and Review Board can be primarily classified as "Code Review" tools.

Review Board is an open source tool with 1.2K GitHub stars and 359 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Review Board's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Code Climate
Pros of Review Board
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    Auto sync with Github
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    Simple grade system that motivates to keep code clean
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    Better coding
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    Free for open source
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    Hotspots for quick refactoring candidates
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    Continued encouragement to a have better / cleaner code
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    Great UI
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    Makes you a better coder
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    Duplication Detection
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    Safe and Secure
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    Private
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    Extremely accurate in telling you the errors
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    GitHub only
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    Python inspection
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    Great open community
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    GitHub integration, status inline in PRs
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    Uses rubocop
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    Locally Installable API
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    Simple to use. Great UI
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    Review Bots
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    Diff between review versions
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    Open Source

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Cons of Code Climate
Cons of Review Board
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    Learning curve, static analysis comparable to eslint
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    Complains about small stylistic decisions
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    What is Code Climate?

    After each Git push, Code Climate analyzes your code for complexity, duplication, and common smells to determine changes in quality and surface technical debt hotspots.

    What is Review Board?

    Review Board is an open source, web-based code and document review tool built to help companies, open source projects, and other organizations keep their quality high and their bug count low.

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