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Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight

by @stripepress stripe.dev published 2026-04-28

This is the story of how our Developer Productivity team extended and rolled out rubyfmt, our Rust-based zero-config, ultra-fast autoformatter across the world's largest Ruby codebase.

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