ThreeScale::Money#in is controlled by argument 'target_date' Open
date = target_date || self.date
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Control Parameter
is a special case of Control Couple
Example
A simple example would be the "quoted" parameter in the following method:
def write(quoted)
if quoted
write_quoted @value
else
write_unquoted @value
end
end
Fixing those problems is out of the scope of this document but an easy solution could be to remove the "write" method alltogether and to move the calls to "writequoted" / "writeunquoted" in the initial caller of "write".
ThreeScale::Money#== manually dispatches method call Open
other.respond_to?(:to_has_money) &&
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Reek reports a Manual Dispatch smell if it finds source code that manually checks whether an object responds to a method before that method is called. Manual dispatch is a type of Simulated Polymorphism which leads to code that is harder to reason about, debug, and refactor.
Example
class MyManualDispatcher
attr_reader :foo
def initialize(foo)
@foo = foo
end
def call
foo.bar if foo.respond_to?(:bar)
end
end
Reek would emit the following warning:
test.rb -- 1 warning:
[9]: MyManualDispatcher manually dispatches method call (ManualDispatch)
ThreeScale::Money#in calls 'self.class' 2 times Open
self.class.new(
self.class.exchange(
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Duplication occurs when two fragments of code look nearly identical, or when two fragments of code have nearly identical effects at some conceptual level.
Reek implements a check for Duplicate Method Call.
Example
Here's a very much simplified and contrived example. The following method will report a warning:
def double_thing()
@other.thing + @other.thing
end
One quick approach to silence Reek would be to refactor the code thus:
def double_thing()
thing = @other.thing
thing + thing
end
A slightly different approach would be to replace all calls of double_thing
by calls to @other.double_thing
:
class Other
def double_thing()
thing + thing
end
end
The approach you take will depend on balancing other factors in your code.
ThreeScale::Money#exchange_service is a writable attribute Open
attr_accessor :exchange_service
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A class that publishes a setter for an instance variable invites client classes to become too intimate with its inner workings, and in particular with its representation of state.
The same holds to a lesser extent for getters, but Reek doesn't flag those.
Example
Given:
class Klass
attr_accessor :dummy
end
Reek would emit the following warning:
reek test.rb
test.rb -- 1 warning:
[2]:Klass declares the writable attribute dummy (Attribute)