Debtective

Find legacy code so you don't forget to pay off your debts! 💰

Usage

#️⃣ Comments

Overall, comments are a good clue to find smelly code that could be rewritten to become understandable without comments.

Morehover, TODO and FIXME comments indicate a debt that needs to be repaid.

Run it with:

bundle exec debtective --comments

This outputs the comments in the stdout and in a comments.json file, with useful information such as<<>> author and date, type, size of the associated statement, etc.

If you are only interested in the comments.json file, pass the --quiet option so that nothing is logged to stdout.

You can filter comments by including and excluding paths:

# find only comments in app/models and app/controllers
# excepting those in app/models/concerns and app/controllers/concerns
bundle exec debtective --comments \
  --include app/models app/controllers \
  --exclude app/models/concerns app/controllers/concerns

You can filter comments by author:

# find only your comments (rely on local git configuration)
bundle exec debtective --comments --me

# find only Jane Doe's comments
bundle exec debtective --comments --user "Jane Doe"

You can filter comments by type:

type	example
`todo`	`# TODO: do that`
`fixme`	`# FIXME: do that`
`yard`	`# @return Float`
`offense`	`# rubocop:disable Metrics/MethodLength`
`magic`	`# frozen_string_literal: true`
`shebang`	`#!/usr/bin/env ruby`
`note`	`# hello world` (any other comment)

Use --<type> to include a type or --no-<type> to exclude a type:

# find only todo and fixme comments
bundle exec debtective --comments --todo --fixme

# find all comments except magic and shebang ones
bundle exec debtective --comments --no-magic --no-shebang

Of course all options can be comined together:

# find only your todo and fixme comments in app/models and app/controllers
# except those in app/models/concerns and app/controllers/concerns
bundle exec debtective --comments --me --todo --fixme \
  --include app/models app/controllers \
  --exclude app/models/concerns app/controllers/concerns

💎 Gems

Find gems that are not maintained anymore.

⚠️ Upcoming feature!

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

group :development do
  gem "debtective"
end

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install debtective

Contributing

This gem is still a work in progress. You can use GitHub issue to start a discussion.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

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