28 March 2008

DRY

At last, my first Rails plugin!

  • generates a report of duplicate lines in your code to help you to follow the DRY principle


  • integrates nicely withand


  • integrates with :

# With RSpec
it { rails_application.
with_threshold_of_duplicate_lines(4).
should be_DRY }

# With Test::Unit
assert_DRY(ruby_code_in_rails_plugin("dont_repeat_yourself"))

To start playing:

ruby script/plugin install http://dryplugin.rubyforge.org/svn/vendor/plugins/dont_repeat_yourself/
rake dry:report:html
or rake dry:report:textmate if you're an happy mac user

If you want to contribute, please use the git repository:
http://github.com/garnierjm/dry-report/tree/master/rails_plugin/vendor/plugins/dont_repeat_yourself/

The doc:

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Cool DRY logo by CodeSmack (Please send me the t-shirt guys!)


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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Very interesting project! A bit depressing to run it on my current project, but that's the point I suppose...

Since I have a Mac I tried out the textmate formatter. The links (txmt://...) work as expected - they take me to the current line. However, it would probably be more useful if I were able to run the reports from within Textmate - for instance in the form of a Textmate bundle. (Bundles->DRY->display report for [current project|selected files], for instance). I think it would be easier to get started using this if it were possible to run it on a couple of files where I suspect there is duplication.

Have you considered distributing this as a gem instead of a plugin? Any plans of making the source available thru git? That could make it easier to contribute stuff, for instance for a Textmate bundle...