- - - - tested with Ruby 2.0.0..2.3.0 - see .travis.yml

This tool locates public or protected methods that can be made private. After you have instrumented the tests suite (see below), it watches the code as the tests are executed and identifies non-private methods that are only called privately. As the technique used is tracing, the execution is slowed down substantially (ex: 300%)

Add this to the top of spec_helper.rb:

require 'private_please'
PrivatePlease.start_tracking
at_exit { puts PrivatePlease.report }
...

Optionally, you can exclude_dir the tests code, local gems, or any source dir that could touched when running the tests.

SPECS_DIR  = File.dirname(__FILE__)
require 'private_please'
PrivatePlease.exclude_dir SPECS_DIR                  # don't analyze the tests
PrivatePlease.exclude_dir '/dev/my_local_gem'        # specified via path: in Gemfile
PrivatePlease.exclude_dir '/Applications/RubyMine.app/Contents/rb/testing'
PrivatePlease.start_tracking
at_exit { puts PrivatePlease.report.gsub(Rails.root.to_s, '') }
...

265 examples, 0 failures, 2 pending

====================================================================================
=                               Privatazable methods :                             =
====================================================================================
/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
    21  ApplicationController::MissingAvatars#must_remind_user_to_setup_avatar?
    75  ApplicationController#allow?
/app/controllers/home_controller.rb
    15  HomeController#redirect_to_default_page_for_signed_in_users
/app/controllers/mentor_profiles_controller.rb
     4  MentorProfilesController#after_create_success

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'private_please'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install private_please

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/alainravet/private_please.

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