diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index 681c4b8..f785673 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
           python3 -m pip install .[dev,publishing]
-      - name: Check style against standards using prospector
-        run: prospector
+      - name: Check style against standards using ruff
+        run: ruff .
       - name: Check import order
         run: isort --check-only distance_explainer --diff
diff --git a/.github/workflows/sonarcloud.yml b/.github/workflows/sonarcloud.yml
index 97995f1..4f20a4a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/sonarcloud.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/sonarcloud.yml
@@ -29,8 +29,6 @@ jobs:
           python3 --version
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: python3 -m pip install .[dev]
-      - name: Check style against standards using prospector
-        run: prospector --zero-exit --output-format grouped --output-format pylint:pylint-report.txt
       - name: Run unit tests with coverage
         run: pytest --cov --cov-report term --cov-report xml --junitxml=xunit-result.xml tests/
       - name: Correct coverage paths
diff --git a/.prospector.yml b/.prospector.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index a500048..0000000
--- a/.prospector.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-# prospector configuration file
-
----
-
-output-format: grouped
-
-strictness: medium
-doc-warnings: false
-test-warnings: true
-member-warnings: false
-
-ignore-paths:
-  - docs
-
-pyroma:
-    run: true
-
-pycodestyle:
-    full: true
-
-pydocstyle:
-    disable: [
-        # Disable because not part of PEP257 official convention:
-        # see http://pep257.readthedocs.io/en/latest/error_codes.html
-        D203,  # 1 blank line required before class docstring
-        D212,  # Multi-line docstring summary should start at the first line
-        D213,  # Multi-line docstring summary should start at the second line
-        D404,  # First word of the docstring should not be This
-    ]
diff --git a/README.dev.md b/README.dev.md
index 64f6c38..7327932 100644
--- a/README.dev.md
+++ b/README.dev.md
@@ -62,13 +62,13 @@ coverage report
 
 ## Running linters locally
 
-For linting we will use [prospector](https://pypi.org/project/prospector/) and to sort imports we will use
+For linting we will use ruff and to sort imports we will use
 [isort](https://pycqa.github.io/isort/). Running the linters requires an activated virtual environment with the
 development tools installed.
 
 ```shell
 # linter
-prospector
+ruff .
 
 # recursively check import style for the distance_explainer module only
 isort --check-only distance_explainer
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9f5a7c3..c1be512 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -19,3 +19,77 @@ skip_missing_interpreters = true
 commands = pytest
 extras = dev
 """
+
+[tool.ruff]
+# Enable Pyflakes `E` and `F` codes by default.
+select = [
+    "F",  # Pyflakes
+    "E",  # pycodestyle (error)
+    "W",    # pycodestyle (warning)
+    # "C90",  # mccabe
+    "I",    # isort
+    "D",    # pydocstyle
+    # "PL",   # Pylint
+    # "PLC",  # Convention
+    # "PLE",  # Error
+    # "PLR",  # Refactor
+    # "PLW",  # Warning
+
+]
+ignore = [
+    'D100',  # Missing module docstring
+    # The following list excludes rules irrelevant to the Google style
+    'D203',
+    'D204',
+    'D213',
+    'D215',
+    'D400',
+    'D401',
+    'D404',
+    'D406',
+    'D407',
+    'D408',
+    'D409',
+    'D413',
+]
+
+# Allow autofix for all enabled rules (when `--fix`) is provided.
+fixable = ["A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "I"]
+unfixable = []
+
+exclude = [
+    ".bzr",
+    ".direnv",
+    ".eggs",
+    ".git",
+    ".hg",
+    ".mypy_cache",
+    ".nox",
+    ".pants.d",
+    ".ruff_cache",
+    ".svn",
+    ".tox",
+    ".venv",
+    "__pypackages__",
+    "_build",
+    "buck-out",
+    "build",
+    "dist",
+    "node_modules",
+    "venv",
+    ".venv",
+    "scripts",
+]
+per-file-ignores = {}
+
+
+# Allow unused variables when underscore-prefixed.
+dummy-variable-rgx = "^(_+|(_+[a-zA-Z0-9_]*[a-zA-Z0-9]+?))$"
+
+target-version = "py39"
+line-length = 120
+
+[tool.ruff.isort]
+known-first-party = ["distance_explainer"]
+force-single-line = true
+no-lines-before = ["future","standard-library","third-party","first-party","local-folder"]
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index ef8caaf..0e4b483 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ install_requires =
 dev =
     bump2version
     coverage [toml]
-    prospector[with_pyroma]
+    ruff
     isort
     pytest
     pytest-cov