I used their openstates repo a while back and found it amazing how well they could distill the data. I had tried writing scrapers before for the same purposes, but it took forever just to get a fraction of what they had. Best of luck to sunlight devs in the transition.

I cannot agree more.

Here are a couple other posts:

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/introducing-hound

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/hound-reviews-coffeescript-for-...

Hound is opt-in, it won't ever add itself to your repo and start commenting.

Glad you like it!

Sorry if it wasn't clear in the post but we do plan on charging for Hound in some way.

"We intend to charge in the near future to ensure Hound is sustainable, but public projects will continue to be free."

I don't expect this to be free. My point is that pricing should be clearly stated on the landing page for the product. You should have a pricing link or header, even if it just says "free for now, we're working on pricing".

Got it, thanks for the input.

That's not good. I opened an issue on GitHub.

https://github.com/thoughtbot/hound/issues/182

Here's an example of how you could configure Hound to increase the line length limit.

https://gist.github.com/salbertson/d5eb2d42f68df9e18d10

RuboCop is great, but one benefit of Hound is it only checks code that has changed. Retroactively enforcing code style is usually a bad idea.

Whatever works for you, just configure Hound to comment on lines longer than 130 instead of 80.

https://gist.github.com/salbertson/d5eb2d42f68df9e18d10