# Reek 1.2 released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reek-1-2-released/175817>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 20, 2009, 4:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reek-1-2-released/175817 "2009-09-20T16:45:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kevin\_Rutherford](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/c4cdca/32.png) [@Kevin\_Rutherford](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kevin_Rutherford)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 4:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reek-1-2-released/175817/1 "2009-09-20T16:45:01Z")

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Hi,  
Reek version 1.2.0 has been released!

Reek detects smells in Ruby code. It can be used as a stand-alone  
command, or as a Rake task, or as an expectation in Rspec examples.

## Changes in this release:

### Major Changes

- Reek passes all its tests under ruby 1.8.6, 1.8.7 and 1.9.1 (fixed  
#16)
- New smell – Data Clump:  
\*\* Looks within a class for 3 or more methods taking the same 2 or  
more parameters
- New smell – Simulated Polymorphism:  
\*\* Currently only performs basic check for multiple tests of same value
- Reek’s output reports are now formatted differently:  
\*\* Reek is no longer silent about smell-free source code  
\*\* Output now reports on all files examined, even if they have no smells  
\*\* Smell warnings are indented in the report; file summary headers are  
not  
\*\* Reports for multiple sources are run together; no more blank lines  
\*\* Reports in spec matcher failures are quiet (fixed #38)
- The smells masked by \*.reek config files can now be seen:  
\*\* The header for each source file now counts masked smells  
\*\* The --show-all (-a) option shows masked warnings in the report
- The spec matchers are now accessed by requiring ‘reek/adapters/spec’

### Minor Changes

- Reek’s RDoc is now hosted at  
[http://rdoc.info/projects/kevinrutherford/reek](http://rdoc.info/projects/kevinrutherford/reek)
- If a dir is passed on the command-line all \*\*/\*.rb files below it  
are examined (fixed #41)
- Duplication warnings now report the number of identical calls
- FeatureEnvy no longer ignores :self when passed as a method parameter
- LargeClass is disabled when checking in-memory classes (fixed #28)
- LongParameterList accepts upto 5 parameters for #initialize methods
- Several changes to the LongMethod counting algorithm:  
\*\* LongMethod now counts statements deeper into each method (fixed #25)  
\*\* LongMethod no longer counts control structures, only their contained  
stmts  
\*\* See [http://wiki.github.com/kevinrutherford/reek/long-method](http://wiki.github.com/kevinrutherford/reek/long-method) for  
details
- UncommunicativeName warns about any name ending in a number (fixed  
#18)
- UtilityFunction has been relaxed somewhat:  
\*\* no longer reports methods that call ‘super’ (fixed #39)  
\*\* no longer reports simple helper methods  
\*\* can be configured based on number of calls out
- Now reports an error for corrupt config files
- Empty config files are ignored
- Smells can be configured with scope-specific overrides for any config  
item

## More information:

- [http://wiki.github.com/kevinrutherford/reek](http://wiki.github.com/kevinrutherford/reek)

Cheers,  
Kevin