Rails Spring vs GitKraken Comparison | StackShare

Overview

Rails Spring

Stacks318

Followers32

Votes0

GitHub Stars2.8K

Forks344

GitKraken

Stacks724

Followers909

Votes290

GitKraken vs Rails Spring: What are the differences?

What is GitKraken? Git GUI Client for Windows Mac and Linux built on Electron. The downright luxurious Git client for Windows, Mac and Linux. Cross-platform, 100% standalone, and free.

What is Rails Spring? Rails application preloader. Spring is a Rails application preloader. It speeds up development by keeping your application running in the background so you don't need to boot it every time you run a test, rake task or migration.

GitKraken belongs to "Source Code Management Desktop Apps" category of the tech stack, while Rails Spring can be primarily classified under "Rails Testing".

Rails Spring is an open source tool with 2.51K GitHub stars and 274 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Rails Spring's open source repository on GitHub.

Tradecore, SCORE42, and Atbox are some of the popular companies that use GitKraken, whereas Rails Spring is used by Referral SaaSquatch, Jollydays, and Ordina Belgium. GitKraken has a broader approval, being mentioned in 43 company stacks & 38 developers stacks; compared to Rails Spring, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

Detailed Comparison

Rails Spring	GitKraken
Spring is a Rails application preloader. It speeds up development by keeping your application running in the background so you don't need to boot it every time you run a test, rake task or migration.	The downright luxurious Git client for Windows, Mac and Linux. Cross-platform, 100% standalone, and free.
Totally automatic; no need to explicitly start and stop the background process;Reloads your application code on each run;Restarts your application when configs / initializers / gem dependencies are changed;	-
Statistics
GitHub Stars 2.8K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 344	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 318	Stacks 724
Followers 32	Followers 909
Votes 0	Votes 290
Pros & Cons
No community feedback yet	Pros 60 Dark theme 34 Best linux git client 29 Great overview 21 Gitflow support 21 Full featured client Cons 4 Extremely slow when working with large repositories 4 Hangs occasionally (not as bad as sourcetree) 4 No edit/fixup in interactive rebase 3 Do not allow to directly edit staging area 3 Not as many features as sourcetree
Integrations
Rails	Git

What are some alternatives to Rails Spring, GitKraken?

SourceTree

Use the full capability of Git and Mercurial in the SourceTree desktop app. Manage all your repositories, hosted or local, through SourceTree's simple interface.

Fork

Manage your repositories without leaving the application. Organize the repositores into categories. Fork's Diff Viewer provides a clear view to spot the changes in your source code quickly.

Tower

Use all of Git's powerful feature set - in a GUI that makes you more productive.

Sublime Merge

A snappy UI, three-way merge tool, side-by-side diffs, syntax highlighting, and more. Evaluate for free – no account, tracking, or time limits.

GitUp

GitUp lets you see your entire labyrinth of branches and merges with perfect clarity. Any change you make, large or small, even outside GitUp, is immediately reflected in GitUp's graph. No refreshing, no waiting.