debride

home: github.com/seattlerb/debride
rdoc: docs.seattlerb.org/debride

DESCRIPTION:

Analyze code for potentially uncalled / dead methods, now with auto-removal.

FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

Static analysis of code. Can be easily hooked up to a CI.
As with all static analysis tools of dynamic languages, can’t be 100%.
Whitelisting known good methods by name or regexp.
Use –rails for Rails-specific domain knowledge.
Use debride_rm to brazenly remove all unused methods. BE CAREFUL.
Use ‘debride_rails_whitelist` to generate an emperical whitelist from logs.
Uses path_expander, so you can use:
- dir_arg – expand a directory automatically
- @file_of_args – persist arguments in a file
- -path_to_subtract – ignore intersecting subsets of files/directories

SYNOPSIS:

% debride lib

These methods MIGHT not be called:

MyClass
  good_method                         lib/some/file.rb:16
  bad_method                          lib/some/file.rb:20
...

But you know that good_method is called (perhaps because it is public API), then you can whitelist it:

% echo good_method > whitelist.txt
% debride --whitelist whitelist.txt lib

These methods MIGHT not be called:

MyClass
  bad_method                          lib/some/file.rb:20
...

Usage example for a typical rails application:

# dump rake routes into a file
% rake routes > routes.txt
# generate whitelist based on routes and usages from production log
% debride_rails_whitelist routes.txt log/production.log | sort -u > whitelist.txt
# add migration methods
% echo up >> whitelist.txt
% echo down >> whitelist.txt
% echo change >> whitelist.txt
# output debride report co standard output with the following options:
# ignore typical rails methods,
# specify generated whitelist,
# run in current directory (".")
% debride --rails --whitelist whitelist.txt .

You can also use regexps in your whitelist by delimiting them with //‘s.

To generate a whitelist for the last 28 days worth of logs on papertrail:

% seq 2 29 | xargs -I {} date -u -v-{}d +%Y-%m-%d | \
  xargs -I {} curl --progress-bar -f --no-include -L -H "X-Papertrail-Token: $PAPERTRAIL_APIKEY" https://papertrailapp.com/api/v1/archives/{}/download | \
  gzip -dc | grep production.log | cut -f 10- | \
  debride_rails_whitelist routes.txt - | sort -u > whitelist.txt

debride_rm

debride_rm will automatically remove dead code and optionally run a command in between each removal. The command will automatically substitute “NAME” and “PATH” with the name and path of the thing being removed. Eg:

% debride_rm -C="git commit -m 'debride NAME in PATH' ." \
    --rails \
    --whitelist whitelist.txt \
    --exclude test \
    --exclude script \
    --exclude bin \
    --minimum 30

This command will:

run with rails extensions on
treat anything named in whitelist.txt as “called”
exclude directories that shouldn’t be scanned or mutated
exclude anything under 30 lines long

One thing to note, debride_rm doesn’t do terribly well with things like attr_accessor lists, so running debride_rm with –minimum 2 (or more) is wise.

Strategy: start large (40+) and work your way down.

PLUGINS:

debride-erb: Extends debride to analyze erb files (via erubis ala rails).
debride-haml: Plugin to allow debride to parse Haml files.
debride-curly: A plugin for the Curly templating language
debride-slim: Extends debride to analyze Slim files

EDITOR INTEGRATION:

TextMate 2

Debride-Rails.tmbundle - Debride with Rails support
Debride.tmbundle - Debride for Ruby

REQUIREMENTS:

sexp_processor
ruby_parser
path_expander

INSTALL:

sudo gem install debride

CONTRIBUTING:

sudo gem install minitest
ruby -Ilib:test test/test_debride.rb

LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the ‘Software’), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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