Lines of code per method

What is your average loc/m?

For my current Ruby project, that number is now 10. The number is slowly decreasing as I refactor. One of my goals is to get it down to about 4-5 (with most methods being 1-2 lines) which I hear is the Ruby way.

I use <http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/trunk/railties/lib/code_statistics.rb>; for counting. Rakefile task:
task :stats do
        require "util/code_statistics.rb"
        CodeStatistics.new(
                ["Code", "src"],
                ["Units", "test"],
                ["Utils", "util"]
        ).to_s
end

>>5
If you don't have to scroll all over the damn place or keep bouncing between files (ala spring, hibernate, ibatis, just about nearly every java framework), it's all good. If you're using one of those said frameworks, now is a good time to stop abusing XML and stop wasting time producing goop. In fact, it's a good time to just stop using Java in general.

If someone tells you you're not following best practices, throw them out the window.