# ruby-lsp

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/ruby-lsp/

6 people recommended ruby-lsp in Hacker News comments and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 12 months, in 4 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

3 of the 6 people who recommend it commented in one thread, “Ruby 4.0.0 Released”.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as the standard Ruby language server for editor features such as go to definition. One critic reports it can hang at startup.

Summary written by Claude from 5 comments.

## Why people recommend it

- Standard Ruby editor language server (1 comment in the sample): "ruby-lsp is the standard and already supports "go to definition" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46384271))
- Brings tooling together in the editor (1 comment in the sample): "ruby-lsp helps bring it all together in the editor" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46389241))
- Uses built-in tooling instead of workarounds (1 comment in the sample): "This is only hard if you insist on refusing to use the available - and built in, in the case of source_location - tooling." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47355010))
- Does its job well (1 comment in the sample): "ruby-lsp does a great job at this" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46613869))

## Other language servers people recommend

- [rust-analyzer](https://hackerapproved.com/p/rust-analyzer/): 11 recommend, 5 mixed, 20 criticize
- [Rust Glancer](https://hackerapproved.com/p/rust-glancer/): 9 recommend, 1 mixed, 0 criticize
- [clangd](https://hackerapproved.com/p/clangd/): 8 recommend, 7 mixed, 5 criticize
- [gopls](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gopls/): 6 recommend, 1 mixed, 4 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "ruby-lsp", https://hackerapproved.com/p/ruby-lsp/ (6 recommend, 0 mixed, 1 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.