# indirect/rails-footnotes

Every Rails page has footnotes that gives information about your application and links back to your editor

Repository: https://github.com/indirect/rails-footnotes
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/rails-footnotes
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-26T11:02:53+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6467, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1522, forks 163 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:57.963925+00:00)

## What it is
A Rails gem that appends debugging footnotes to every page in development, showing sessions, request parameters, cookies, routes, queries, and more. It also generates links that open the relevant source files and backtrace lines directly in your editor via URL schemes.

## Use cases
- debug rails pages with request params and queries inline
- open rails source files in my editor from the browser
- inspect cookies and sessions during rails development
- see filter chain and routes on each page
- link backtrace lines to textmate or sublime
- make editor links work with docker or vagrant paths

## When to choose
- you develop Rails apps and want quick in-page debugging info
- you want one-click navigation from rendered pages to source files in your editor
- you need to inspect request data without digging through logs

## When to avoid
- in production environments, since it exposes request internals
- for non-Ruby or non-Rails projects
- if you rely on a debugger or IDE tooling that already covers this

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: developer-tools, logging, middleware
- domain: web-development, developer-tools
- platform: ruby
- tags: rails, debugging, editor-integration, development-tools, gem, web-server

## Member repositories
- indirect/rails-footnotes (main) score 77

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:57.963925+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:31:47.415109+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/indirect/rails-footnotes (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:57.963925+00:00, sha 421b77c428f7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.