From: Kevin Rutherford <kevin@...>
Date: 2008-09-25T03:49:43+09:00
Subject: reek, a code smells detector for ruby

Hi,
I've been working on a little software tool called 'reek'. Reek scans
ruby code — either source files or in-memory Class objects — looking
for some of the code smells discussed in the book. Right now it can
detect (certain forms of):

    * Long Method
    * Large Class
    * Feature Envy
    * Uncommunicative Name
    * Long Parameter List
    * Utility Function
    * Nested Iterators

As time goes by I'll be adding checks for more smells, and I hope to
make the current checks a bit more sophisticated. But in the agile
spirit of going ugly early, the current very early version is
available for you to experiment with. To get the tool:

gem install reek

To run it:

reek file1.rb file2.rb …

If you try it, please let me know what you think and what you'd like
the next version to do!

You can browse the reek project's code repository at
http://github.com/kevinrutherford/reek/tree/master or
http://rubyforge.org/projects/reek/.
Cheers,
   Kevin
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