From: Jimmy Thrasher <jjthrash@...>
Date: 2001-11-16T23:04:19+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25429] Re: Refactoring tool for Ruby...

At 07:16 AM 11/16/2001 +0900, you wrote:
>Is [needing an IDE] really true?  The core refactoring capability doesn't have
>to have anything to do with an IDE. It could easily be a libray which
>is capable of being used on the command line or from a ruby script.
>Hmm, maybe we have different ideas re: what  a refactoring tool does

I agree, except that it might be hard to API-ify it.

Perhaps:

class RefactorTool
   def extractMethod(ast, astPath) #astPath is like X-Path?
   end

   def getPossibleRefactorings(ast, astPath)
   end
end

?

Jimmy