Code Climate

Brian McLaughlin bmclaugh at redhat.com
Tue Jan 22 15:34:32 UTC 2013


On 1/22/13 6:05 AM, Imre Farkas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yesterday I came across a new service called Code Climate which 
> provides code metrics based on static analysis of the code. It is only 
> for Ruby and it's free for opensource projects. I added Conductor and 
> it gave the result back in a minute. You can check them at: 
> https://codeclimate.com/github/aeolusproject/conductor
>
> It also has an activity feed which is now empty but as soon as new 
> commits will be added to Conductor it will be evaluated and will 
> appear in the feed. You can subscribe to it via RSS or we you can 
> receive updates via email. By doing that you will receive immediate 
> feedback of your code.
Nice find!  +1
>
> I think it's a pretty awesome service and I would like to take one 
> step further. Ideally, we could use this site with the intent to 
> improve our code quality. Currently, a huge part of our business logic 
> is concentrated in a few classes. It's already causing headaches for 
> us and it will just get worse. Martin also wrote about the need to 
> refactor certain parts of our codebase [1], with which I completely 
> agree.
>
> To handle this issue we could allocate a small portion of every sprint 
> from now on to refactor the worst part of Conductor. Using Code 
> Climate, we can identify hot spots easily (not that it would be hard 
> on our own) and we will receive instant feedback on our effort.
+1
>
> What do you think?
>
> Imre
>
> [1] 
> https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/aeolus-devel/2013-January/013695.html



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