The Rat Catcher

A tool for refactoring Ruby code. Initially, we're doing a UI for it based around the Gtk+ toolkit; once we have something minimally functional for that, we figure on interfacing to at least one IDE/Editor (vim, Emacs, NetBeans, or Eclipse) to force ourselves to cleanly separate the refactoring engine out from the UI. If we can handle two distinct UIs, we can probably handle N distinct UIs (he said optimistically).

Repository

• http://github.com/jmax315/ratcatcher

• git://github.com/jmax315/ratcatcher.git

Stories

The RatCatcherStories are on their own page.

Required Gems

RubyGems that RatCatcher needs.

• rake
• rspec
• rcov
• ruby_parser
• ruby2ruby
  • If having trouble with gems loading try this in your .profile
    • export RUBYOPT=rubygems
• json

Setting up with ''rvm''

rvm use ruby-1.8.7
rvm gemset create ratcatcher
rvm use ruby-1.8.7@ratcatcher
gem install rspec
gem install ruby_parser
gem install ruby2ruby
gem install json

Other required packages

Ieresting links

• Ruby <-> Emacs plumbing

• vim scripting

Emacs front end

We've started work on an Emacs front end; in addition to a recent version of Emacs itself, it depends on:

• test.el, available from http://www.wanglianghome.org/svn/test/test.el

• json.el, available from http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/emacs/lisp/json.el?root=emacs

  • (json.el is included in recent versions of Emacs).

To Do

• Justify the project's name

• I've supplied links to Emacs interfaces for Ruby, which is what I'm interested in; any of you NetBeans or Eclipse partisans want to track down information for eventually interfacing RatCatcher to them? --JohnMaxwell

• Interface to vim