From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2007-03-30T07:38:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a tool to document method invocations?


On Mar 29, 2007, at 5:51 PM, Larry Fast wrote:

> Joel VanderWerf wrote:
>> gem install ruby-prof
>> It's a really nice tool.
>
> OK, but doesn't it just produce runtime reports?  I'm looking for a
> static report on WHERE in my code various objects and methods are  
> used.
> Is this capability buried in ruby-prof somewhere? The docs just talk
> about runtime.

I'd be surprised if it were even possible to generate a call graph
based on the static text.  Ruby is simply too dynamic of a language.

The main problem is that it is really difficult (impossible?) to
intuit the class of the object returned by a method call by simply
looking at the text.  Add in the possibility that methods are
created at run time and it becomes a really *hard* problem.



Gary Wright