From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-10-26T20:44:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Lint for Ruby


"Matt Mower" <matt.mower@gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:d563731904102511108047fd3@mail.gmail.com...
> Hi folks.
>
> I was wondering whether anyone had done any work on a Lint style tool
> for Ruby programs?
>
> A google for "Ruby Lint" didn't turn up anything obviously useful.

Others have provided some solutions (I'd use "ruby -cw") but IMHO it boils
down to the statement that static checks will not gain you much with Ruby
because of its dynamic nature and typeless variables.  For example, you
usually can't iterate through the wrong index range on an array because
most of the time you'll be using Array#each anyway leaving little room for
off by one errors.

Kind regards

    robert