I guess it is still useless in Ruby or Ruby on Rails.
Standard "find the method declaration" or "used here" do not work in Ruby on Rails. Still, huge companies maintain that Ruby on Rails mess, where you cannot properly investigate, so you just guess and use the search and find option.
Those codebases won't be replaced for a while, but good luck working on them. Such a headache!
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Re: Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph
#12I guess it is still useless in Ruby or Ruby on Rails. Standard "find the method declaration" or "used here" do not work in Ruby on Rails. Still, huge companies maintain that Ruby on Rails mess, where you cannot properly investigate, so you just guess and use the search and find option. Those codebases won't be replaced for a while, but good luck working on them. Such a headache!
How come nobody came up with an LSP that can perform this, all this time ?
Re: Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph
#13I guess it is still useless in Ruby or Ruby on Rails. Standard "find the method declaration" or "used here" do not work in Ruby on Rails. Still, huge companies maintain that Ruby on Rails mess, where you cannot properly investigate, so you just guess and use the search and find option. Those codebases won't be replaced for a while, but good luck working on them. Such a headache!
How come nobody came up with an LSP that can perform this, all this time ?
Re: Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph
#14Only JS, TypeScript, and Python. You got me all excited for a C visualizer!
Re: Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph
#15I guess it is still useless in Ruby or Ruby on Rails. Standard "find the method declaration" or "used here" do not work in Ruby on Rails. Still, huge companies maintain that Ruby on Rails mess, where you cannot properly investigate, so you just guess and use the search and find option. Those codebases won't be replaced for a while, but good luck working on them. Such a headache!
How come nobody came up with an LSP that can perform this, all this time ?
Because it's an unsolvable problem without static type annotations and as far as I'm aware Ruby doesn't have a good solution for those yet (or if they do nobody uses it).
Re: Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph
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Re: Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph
#17I definitly think more tools like this are needed, but not open sourcing it is a mistake.
You will be quickly replaced by a friendlier competitor.
Re: Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph
#18I've tried it, but it's very slow on a not too complex codebase with my M3 Macbook Air.
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I'm using another similar one which is buttery smooth, Code Canvas.
Re: Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph
#19I guess it is still useless in Ruby or Ruby on Rails. Standard "find the method declaration" or "used here" do not work in Ruby on Rails. Still, huge companies maintain that Ruby on Rails mess, where you cannot properly investigate, so you just guess and use the search and find option. Those codebases won't be replaced for a while, but good luck working on them. Such a headache!
How come nobody came up with an LSP that can perform this, all this time ?
I've developed a small tool[1] that has helped me for the same problem, but in Python. Basically just uses simple parsers to attempt to find a definition wherever is sensible. Adding a Ruby module should not be too difficult, but it would probably be trickier than Python to get some good enough results
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#20I used to use Doxygen to create caller and callee graphs to understand code flow. Unfortunately, the tool hasn't really changed in more than a decade.