“Did you mean?” Experience in Ruby
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“Did you mean?” Experience in Ruby
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Re: “Did you mean?” Experience in Ruby
#2Neat. In case you're wondering, it's implemented using a levenshtein distance algorithm:
https://www.omniref.com/ruby/gems/did_you_mean/0.6.0/symbols...
and it works by extending the NameError exception:
https://www.omniref.com/ruby/gems/did_you_mean/0.6.0/files/l...
Re: “Did you mean?” Experience in Ruby
#3This sort of stuff should, at least in the 'easy' case be done at the editor level. Doesn't ruby have linter tooling for this?
Still, props for the work.
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#5Obviously this is a useful tool, and all the power to the author for finding what looks to be an excellent solution, but this line bothers me:
>>> Sometimes I wasted hours and hours just because there is one character difference. I hate it.
This shouldn't happen. Ever. This should not be a problem anymore. These are the sort of errors that we can catch immediately and should be caught immediately. From looking at the author's GitHub profile, it looks like he uses Emacs, presumably without a plugin that would give him IDE like features. I'm not going to tell him to go use a regular IDE, but it frustrates me that's we can't have those sort of tools available everywhere. (As a vim user myself I have high hopes for the neovim project and look forward to the day when it can be embedded inside a general sort of IDE.)
Re: “Did you mean?” Experience in Ruby
#6Obviously this is a useful tool, and all the power to the author for finding what looks to be an excellent solution, but this line bothers me: >>> Sometimes I wasted hours and hours just because there is one character difference. I hate it. This shouldn't happen. Ever. This should not be a problem anymore. These are the sort of errors that we can catch immediately and should be caught immediately. From looking at the…
Yuki works at Pivotal Labs in NYC. I work there too.
We use whatever editor or IDE any given pair decides to use. In my day-to-day work I've used RubyMine (very popular in our west coast offices), Vim (popular in NYC), Emacs (popular with Mike Dalessio) and my own personal favourite, Sublime Text.
I don't think solutions have to be either/or. Yuki's approach is simple and will cover lots of cases.
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#7>>> Sometimes I wasted hours and hours just becaue there is one charactor difference. I hate it.
"because" misspelt.
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#8I would love it if instead of quitting my program with an error, it just went ahead and called the method it thinks I'm referring to. This would remove a lot of unneeded friction from web development.
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#9'Sometimes I wasted hours and hours just becaue there is one charactor difference. I hate it.'
Not sure if the typos (Yeah, there are two) are intentional but I loved it :-)
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#10>>> Sometimes I wasted hours and hours just becaue there is one charactor difference. I hate it. "because" misspelt.
I left a note on this as well. I think it's intentional. Also, there are two typos :-)