Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight

Formatting an entire 25 million line codebase overnight: the rubyfmt story/MetadataDate:2026.4.28Authors:Fable TalesAnna MasonReading time:8 min readCategories:EngineeringDeveloper ProductivityShare:Twitter/XLinkedIn/Article

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Fable Tales

Fable works on Developer Productivity at Stripe.

Anna Mason

Anna Mason is a technical writer at Stripe working across the engineering organization.

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