Jake Scruggs

I released metric_fu 0.9.0 last night and just look at all the super cool changes since 0.8.0: Flay task finds duplication and structural similarities in your project Reek identifies common code smells Roodi finds mistakes and troublesome code A configuration class so you can configure like the big boys Standardization of the reports look and feel Increased RSpec coverage Source control type is auto-detected for Churn task Under the hood refactoring to make adding new metrics reports easy Of course it still does all the old stuff like 2 different types of complexity reports, code churn analysis, code coverage, and good old Rails stats. Set up a Cruise Control task to generate metrics reports every day and then you pinpoint the exact moment your project went to hell (or possibly avoid that fate -- your call). Check out the project home page at: http://metric-fu.rubyforge.org/ The best part about this whole thing is that almost everything added since release 0.8 has been added by the...

Better Hacking With Training Wheels by Joe Martinez "We all have a stake in each other" -- we use each other's code in many, many libraries. What automatically checks the quality of our code? Joe wants to encode rules in a standard way (called wheels) so that you could drop it into Training Wheels and it would enforce your rules on the code. People who write new libraries could include a wheels directory in their library which would offer suggestions. Interesting idea -- on my current project we've be having problems with people calling destroy_all on an ActiveRecord class for no good reason. We could define a rule that shoots out a warning every time you do that. http://github.com/capitalist/training-wheels NeverBlock, trivial non-blocking IO for Ruby by W. Idris Yasser "Neverblock enables concurrent DB and network access without thew need to change the program flow" Which is awesome. Idris said that the Evented model is good but you must adjust your co...