Spork is great. And so is guard and its family of plugins. Early this year I spent a while converting all of my rails projects to use spork, and we even had a team standard tmux setup that ran spork in one of the start-up screens. So every time we saved a file, guard/spork ran… [Read more…]
August 7, 2011
One of the Rails apps I work on has this: $ rspec spec #... Finished in 61.82 seconds 475 examples, 0 failures 61 seconds! (And on top of that I have to wait another 15 seconds for Rails load; that’s a whole other story, and I hope to come back to that in a future… [Read more…]
November 10, 2010
Way back in March of this year, while I was attending the Scottish Ruby Conference, Werner Schuster interviewed me for InfoQ. The video has been online since August, and this is me finally getting around to telling you about it; watch it here. I talk about Reek, Refactoring in Ruby, and agile development in general.… [Read more…]
May 13, 2010
Charles Max Wood has just posted an interview he did with me a couple of weeks back. It’s about Reek, Refactoring in Ruby and agile development practices. I waffle too much, and make a couple of historical mistakes. Ho hum.
October 28, 2009
Interesting link: In Improving Code using Metric Fu the folks at devver.net give a little insight into how they have been using Reek and the other Ruby quality tools to improve their codebase.
October 18, 2009
A couple of days ago I made a little change to Reek and to my surprise 89 tests broke, which is bad. I tweeted about it, and soon @logosity had asked me to write about why it had happened. I know the same sort of thing happens to people all the time, and it can… [Read more…]
September 28, 2009
In Ruby, one easy way to check for palindromes would be to write a method such as this: class String def palindrome? self == self.reverse end end But the C++ part of my brain screams that this is likely to be very inefficient. So, today’s kata: test-drive a palindrome? method for String, ensuring (with tests)… [Read more…]
July 14, 2009
During my refactoring homework last evening I noticed a little tug-of-war between two different coding styles, and after a restless night I’ll try to analyse here what was going on… Deep inside Reek is a Source class, whose instances are responsible for converting Ruby code into abstract syntax trees for later examination by the various… [Read more…]
June 16, 2009
Discussion about Reek seems to be popping up all over the place at the moment, so I’ve created a Google group where problems, ideas and suggestions can be shared in one place. I’ll be making release announcements there and seeking feedback from you on my ideas for Reek’s future. So if you’re using Reek, hop… [Read more…]
June 1, 2009
During the last few weeks I’ve been participating in an email discussion about the relationship between static analysis tools (such as Reek) and TDD. The discussion was instigated by Pat Eyler, and he has now organised and posted the results on his On-Ruby blog. To help me get an initial handle on the topic, I… [Read more…]
I'm Kevin Rutherford, from Macclesfield in the UK. I'm an independent agile software coach and mentor, specialising in test-driven development, agile, lean and the theory of constraints.
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