Refactoring support

Rails
1

Hi,

I’m pretty new to RoR but I like it very much. My problem I haven’t find
any
refactoring support (for example renaming a controller, or extracting
one).

Are there any plugins/tools for such a job? Or are there any work on
that
issue. IMO for agile development ease in change would be pretty nice.

2

Seyit Caglar Abbasoglu wrote:

I’m pretty new to RoR but I like it very much. My problem I haven’t find
any refactoring support (for example renaming a controller, or
extracting one).

Are there any plugins/tools for such a job? Or are there any work on
that issue. IMO for agile development ease in change would be pretty nice.

That would be editor-specific. Refactoring support for Ruby sucks, but
it
doesn’t have to:

I typically…

  • Baseline everything by integrating it
  • svn mv a file by name
  • svn mv the test file
  • immediately open an editor and global search-n-replace the name
  • run all the tests & integrate

The search-and-replace should hit the matching test case, by name.

I use ‘svn mv’ first because I’m too paranoid to do the search-n-replace
first.
There might be a technical reason…

–
Phlip

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Thx Philip,

That’s pretty similar to what I do. But again might there be (or is it
possible to build) some scripts to do certain refactoring tasks specific
to
Rails.

For example "script/refactor rename_controller product_controller, admin
or “script/refactor extract_controller product_controller, admin,
login:action, new:action” etc…

I’m too new to Rails (even Ruby) to create such things. And I can’t even
imagine if it’s possible

2008/10/4 Phlip [email protected]