diff --git a/templates/.github/workflows/black.yml b/templates/.github/workflows/black.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 6f47e98f..00000000
--- a/templates/.github/workflows/black.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-name: Check black formatting
-
-on: [push]
-
-jobs:
-  lint:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      - uses: psf/black@stable
diff --git a/templates/.github/workflows/flake8.yml b/templates/.github/workflows/flake8.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 621b03da..00000000
--- a/templates/.github/workflows/flake8.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-name: Python flake8 check
-
-on: [push]
-
-jobs:
-  build:
-
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-    - name: Set up Python 3.10
-      uses: actions/setup-python@v4
-      with:
-        python-version: "3.10"
-    - name: Lint with flake8
-      run: |
-        pip install flake8
-        flake8 . --exclude=docs --count --ignore=W503,W504,F541,E203 --max-line-length=100 --show-source --statistics
diff --git a/templates/.github/workflows/python-formatting.yml b/templates/.github/workflows/python-formatting.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4dc79f7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/templates/.github/workflows/python-formatting.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+name: check format using ruff
+on: [push]
+jobs:
+  ruff:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: chartboost/ruff-action@v1
+        with:
+          args: format --check
diff --git a/templates/.github/workflows/python-linting.yml b/templates/.github/workflows/python-linting.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5b842f0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/templates/.github/workflows/python-linting.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+name: lint code using ruff
+on: [push]
+jobs:
+  ruff:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: chartboost/ruff-action@v1
diff --git a/templates/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/templates/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index e3e5bcb9..f055986a 100644
--- a/templates/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/templates/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -1,13 +1,9 @@
 repos:
--   repo: https://github.com/psf/black
-    rev: 23.3.0
-    hooks:
-    - id: black
-      language_version: python3.10
-
--   repo: https://github.com/pycqa/isort
-    rev: 5.12.0
-    hooks:
-    - id: isort
-      name: isort (python)
-      language_version: python3.10
+- repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
+  # Ruff version.
+  rev: v0.1.5
+  hooks:
+    # Run the linter.
+    - id: ruff
+    # Run the formatter.
+    - id: ruff-format
diff --git a/templates/pyproject.toml b/templates/pyproject.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index 006a70bb..00000000
--- a/templates/pyproject.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-[tool.black]
-include = '\.pyi?$'
-exclude = '''
-/(
-    \.git
-  | \.mypy_cache
-  | \.tox
-  | \.venv
-  | \.vscode
-  | \.eggs
-  | _build
-  | buck-out
-  | build
-  | dist
-  | docs
-)/
-'''
-
-[tool.isort]
-profile = "black"
-
-[tool.pyright]
-ignore = [
-    "**/node_modules",
-    "**/__pycache__",
-    "**/*.ipynb",
-    ".git"
-]
diff --git a/templates/pyrightconfig.json b/templates/pyrightconfig.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7fef666c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/templates/pyrightconfig.json
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+{
+    "ignore": [
+        "**/node_modules",
+        "**/__pycache__",
+        "**/*.ipynb",
+        ".git"
+    ]
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/templates/ruff.toml b/templates/ruff.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..be100189
--- /dev/null
+++ b/templates/ruff.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+# Copied originally from pandas
+target-version = "py310"
+
+# fix = true
+unfixable = []
+
+select = [
+  "I", # isort
+  "F", # pyflakes
+  "E", "W", # pycodestyle
+  "YTT", # flake8-2020
+  "B", # flake8-bugbear
+  "Q", # flake8-quotes
+  "T10", # flake8-debugger
+  "INT", # flake8-gettext
+  "PLC", "PLE", "PLR", "PLW", # pylint
+  "PIE", # misc lints
+  "PYI", # flake8-pyi
+  "TID", # tidy imports
+  "ISC", # implicit string concatenation
+  "TCH", # type-checking imports
+  "C4", # comprehensions
+  "PGH" # pygrep-hooks
+]
+
+# Some additional rules that are useful
+extend-select = [
+"UP009",  # UTF-8 encoding declaration is unnecessary
+"SIM118",  # Use `key in dict` instead of `key in dict.keys()`
+"D205",  # One blank line required between summary line and description
+"ARG001",  # Unused function argument
+"RSE102",  # Unnecessary parentheses on raised exception
+"PERF401",  # Use a list comprehension to create a transformed list
+]
+
+ignore = [
+  "ISC001", # Disable this for compatibility with ruff format
+  "B028", # No explicit `stacklevel` keyword argument found
+  "B905", # `zip()` without an explicit `strict=` parameter
+  "E402", # module level import not at top of file
+  "E731", # do not assign a lambda expression, use a def
+  "PLC1901", # compare-to-empty-string
+  "PLR0911", # Too many returns
+  "PLR0912", # Too many branches
+  "PLR0913", # Too many arguments to function call
+  "PLR0915", # Too many statements
+  "PLR2004", # Magic number
+]
+
+# TODO : fix these and stop ignoring. Commented out ones are common and OK to except.
+extend-ignore = [
+  "PGH004", # Use specific rule codes when using `noqa`
+#  "C401", # Unnecessary generator (rewrite as a `set` comprehension)
+#  "C402", # Unnecessary generator (rewrite as a dict comprehension)
+#  "C405", # Unnecessary `list` literal (rewrite as a `set` literal)
+#  "C408", # Unnecessary `dict` call (rewrite as a literal)
+#  "C416", # Unnecessary `dict` comprehension (rewrite using `dict()`)
+#  "PGH002", # warn is deprecated in favor of warning
+#  "PYI056", # Calling `.append()` on `__all__` may not be supported by all type checkers
+]
+
+extend-exclude = [
+  "docs",
+]
+
+[pycodestyle]
+max-line-length = 100 # E501 reports lines that exceed the length of 100.
+
+[lint.extend-per-file-ignores]
+"__init__.py" = ["E402", "F401", "F403"]
+# For tests:
+# - D205: Don't worry about test docstrings
+# - ARG001: Unused function argument false positives for some fixtures
+"**/tests/test_*.py" = ["D205", "ARG001"]