diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 5dc03f8..3c7126e 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -58,10 +58,9 @@ repos:
       - id: prettier
         additional_dependencies:
           - "prettier@^3.2.4"
-  # docformatter - PEP 257 compliant docstring formatter
-  - repo: https://github.com/s-weigand/docformatter
-    rev: 5757c5190d95e5449f102ace83df92e7d3b06c6c
+  # ruff - An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.
+  - repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
+    rev: v0.15.12
     hooks:
-      - id: docformatter
-        additional_dependencies: [tomli]
-        args: [--in-place, --config, ./pyproject.toml]
+      - id: ruff-check
+        args: [--fix, --config=pyproject.toml]
diff --git a/news/ruff.rst b/news/ruff.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f007906
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/ruff.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+**Added:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Changed:**
+
+* Changed pre-commit workflow from docformatter to ruff
+
+**Deprecated:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Removed:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Fixed:**
+
+* <news item>
+
+**Security:**
+
+* <news item>
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 76a00e8..de259eb 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -3,10 +3,11 @@ exclude-file = ".codespell/ignore_lines.txt"
 ignore-words = ".codespell/ignore_words.txt"
 skip = "*.cif,*.dat"
 
-[tool.docformatter]
-recursive = true
-wrap-summaries = 72
-wrap-descriptions = 72
+[tool.ruff]
+line-length = 72
+
+[tool.ruff.lint.pydocstyle]
+convention = "numpy"
 
 [tool.black]
 line-length = 79