Tombstone

Inspired by David Schnepper's Ignite talk "Isn't That Code Dead?" - Velocity Santa Clara 2014

Ruby 2.0 or above

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'tombstone'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install tombstone

Not sure if some code is safe to remove? Tombstone it.

Place a Tombstone in your code as follows:

Tombstone.place('YOUR_LABEL')

You can use todays date as a label, to remind yourself of when you placed the Tombstone. When a Tombstone is encountered it will output to your rails development log like so:

Tombstone: 2014-11-01 - index - /Users/lewispb/projects/railsapp/app/controllers/welcome_controller.rb Line #: 5

You can use the following command to search your development log for Tombstones. From the root of your rails app run:

bundle exec tombstone

All contributions very welcome

• Test with non Rails apps
• Write some tests

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/tombstone/fork )
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 a new Pull Request