ruby-lsp
Shares rank 5 of 7 language servers by recommenders
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.
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.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 86%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Standard Ruby editor language server
“ruby-lsp is the standard and already supports "go to definition"”
Comment from 25 Dec 2025 in “Ruby 4.0.0 Released” Brings tooling together in the editor
“ruby-lsp helps bring it all together in the editor”
Comment from 26 Dec 2025 in “Ruby 4.0.0 Released” Uses built-in tooling instead of workarounds
“This is only hard if you insist on refusing to use the available - and built in, in the case of source_location - tooling.”
Comment from 12 Mar 2026 in “Returning to Rails in 2026” Does its job well
“ruby-lsp does a great job at this”
Comment from 14 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Nogic, Turn codebase into a graph to understand how it fits together”
Other language servers people recommend
The four most recommended other language servers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rust-analyzer | 19 | 21 | 48% | 8 | — | — |
| clangd | 15 | 6 | 71% | 10 | — | Approved |
| Rust Glancer | 10 | 0 | 100% | 2 | — | — |
| gopls | 9 | 4 | 69% | 6 | — | — |
| ruby-lspThis page | 6 | 1 | 86% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
5 of the 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“This is only hard if you insist on refusing to use the available - and built in, in the case of source_location - tooling.”
“ruby-lsp does a great job at this”
“ruby-lsp helps bring it all together in the editor”
“ruby-lsp is the standard and already supports "go to definition"”
“it just sits there on "Starting Ruby LSP..."”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.