ActiveTodo

Forget TODO comments that are sitting in your code forever

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'activetodo'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install activetodo

Use anywhere in code:

# Generic TODO without deadline
TODO 'Add specs'

# After 2014-01-01 it will `Rails.logger.warn` or `puts` if outside Rails
FIXME 'Certificate will expire soon', deadline: '2014-01-01'

# Raises error after 2014-02-28
XXX 'Dirty hack, must refactor', deadline: '2014-02-28', warn_only: false

# In Rails, if you want it to log warnings in production, use `ignore_production` = false
# By default it will do nothing in production
TODO 'Remove unused class LegacyModel', deadline: '2015-01-04', ignore_production: false

TODO, FIXME and XXX all have same interface: TODO(<message>, [options_hash])

You can use activetodo with or without Rails.

By default, ActiveTodo will not raise errors when deadline is reached. You may want to enabled that depending on your environment. In Rails, do that by creating config/initializers/activetodo.rb with following lines:

ActiveTodo.configure do |config|
  # Log deadline warnings in Production, raise errors in Development / Test
  config.warn_only = Rails.env.production?

  # Allow logging in Rails.env.production (by default it will not do anything)
  config.ignore_production = false
end

You can still override the default configuration by passing warn_only option:

TODO 'Remove this internal testing controller', deadline: '2013-05-01', warn_only: false

ActiveTodo will not do anything in production, unless you provide ignore_production: false option in your TODO calls, or add config.ignore_production = false in ActiveTodo.configure block.

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request