Code smell detector

→ ‘reek’

What

Reek is a tool that examines Ruby classes, modules and methods and reports any code smells it finds.

Installing

sudo gem install reek

The basics

  $ cd my_project/lib
  $ reek

(See reek—help for more.)

Code Smells

reek currently includes very naive checks for the following code smells:

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

How to access the source code

The source is hosted on both github and rubyforge

License

This code is free to use under the terms of the MIT license.

Contact

Comments are welcome. Send an email to Kevin Rutherford

Kevin Rutherford, 12th September 2008
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