Fitbark::Handler::V2::Base#check_errors refers to 'conn' more than self (maybe move it to another class?) Open
unless conn.success?
raise(Fitbark::Errors::ConnectionError
.new(message: "#{conn.reason_phrase} #{conn.body}",
code: conn.status))
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Feature Envy occurs when a code fragment references another object more often than it references itself, or when several clients do the same series of manipulations on a particular type of object.
Feature Envy reduces the code's ability to communicate intent: code that "belongs" on one class but which is located in another can be hard to find, and may upset the "System of Names" in the host class.
Feature Envy also affects the design's flexibility: A code fragment that is in the wrong class creates couplings that may not be natural within the application's domain, and creates a loss of cohesion in the unwilling host class.
Feature Envy often arises because it must manipulate other objects (usually its arguments) to get them into a useful form, and one force preventing them (the arguments) doing this themselves is that the common knowledge lives outside the arguments, or the arguments are of too basic a type to justify extending that type. Therefore there must be something which 'knows' about the contents or purposes of the arguments. That thing would have to be more than just a basic type, because the basic types are either containers which don't know about their contents, or they are single objects which can't capture their relationship with their fellows of the same type. So, this thing with the extra knowledge should be reified into a class, and the utility method will most likely belong there.
Example
Running Reek on:
class Warehouse
def sale_price(item)
(item.price - item.rebate) * @vat
end
end
would report:
Warehouse#total_price refers to item more than self (FeatureEnvy)
since this:
(item.price - item.rebate)
belongs to the Item class, not the Warehouse.
Fitbark::Handler::V2::Base#connection has approx 6 statements Open
def connection(verb: :get, fragment:, params: {})
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A method with Too Many Statements
is any method that has a large number of lines.
Too Many Statements
warns about any method that has more than 5 statements. Reek's smell detector for Too Many Statements
counts +1 for every simple statement in a method and +1 for every statement within a control structure (if
, else
, case
, when
, for
, while
, until
, begin
, rescue
) but it doesn't count the control structure itself.
So the following method would score +6 in Reek's statement-counting algorithm:
def parse(arg, argv, &error)
if !(val = arg) and (argv.empty? or /\A-/ =~ (val = argv[0]))
return nil, block, nil # +1
end
opt = (val = parse_arg(val, &error))[1] # +2
val = conv_arg(*val) # +3
if opt and !arg
argv.shift # +4
else
val[0] = nil # +5
end
val # +6
end
(You might argue that the two assigments within the first @if@ should count as statements, and that perhaps the nested assignment should count as +2.)
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module Base
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A module is usually a mixin, so when an #initialize
method is present it is
hard to tell initialization order and parameters so having #initialize
in a module is usually a bad idea.
Example
The Foo
module below contains a method initialize
. Although class B
inherits from A
, the inclusion of Foo
stops A#initialize
from being called.
class A
def initialize(a)
@a = a
end
end
module Foo
def initialize(foo)
@foo = foo
end
end
class B < A
include Foo
def initialize(b)
super('bar')
@b = b
end
end
A simple solution is to rename Foo#initialize
and call that method by name:
module Foo
def setup_foo_module(foo)
@foo = foo
end
end
class B < A
include Foo
def initialize(b)
super 'bar'
setup_foo_module('foo')
@b = b
end
end
Fitbark::Handler::V2::Base#json_response has the variable name 'e' Open
rescue Oj::ParseError => e
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An Uncommunicative Variable Name
is a variable name that doesn't communicate its intent well enough.
Poor names make it hard for the reader to build a mental picture of what's going on in the code. They can also be mis-interpreted; and they hurt the flow of reading, because the reader must slow down to interpret the names.
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module V2
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An Uncommunicative Module Name
is a module name that doesn't communicate its intent well enough.
Poor names make it hard for the reader to build a mental picture of what's going on in the code. They can also be mis-interpreted; and they hurt the flow of reading, because the reader must slow down to interpret the names.
Useless private
access modifier. Open
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This cop checks for redundant access modifiers, including those with no
code, those which are repeated, and leading public
modifiers in a
class or module body. Conditionally-defined methods are considered as
always being defined, and thus access modifiers guarding such methods
are not redundant.
Example:
class Foo
public # this is redundant (default access is public)
def method
end
private # this is not redundant (a method is defined)
def method2
end
private # this is redundant (no following methods are defined)
end
Example:
class Foo
# The following is not redundant (conditionally defined methods are
# considered as always defining a method)
private
if condition?
def method
end
end
protected # this is not redundant (method is defined)
define_method(:method2) do
end
protected # this is redundant (repeated from previous modifier)
[1,2,3].each do |i|
define_method("foo#{i}") do
end
end
# The following is redundant (methods defined on the class'
# singleton class are not affected by the public modifier)
public
def self.method3
end
end
Example:
# Lint/UselessAccessModifier:
# ContextCreatingMethods:
# - concerning
require 'active_support/concern'
class Foo
concerning :Bar do
def some_public_method
end
private
def some_private_method
end
end
# this is not redundant because `concerning` created its own context
private
def some_other_private_method
end
end
Example:
# Lint/UselessAccessModifier:
# MethodCreatingMethods:
# - delegate
require 'active_support/core_ext/module/delegation'
class Foo
# this is not redundant because `delegate` creates methods
private
delegate :method_a, to: :method_b
end
Use a guard clause instead of wrapping the code inside a conditional expression. Open
unless conn.success?
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Use a guard clause instead of wrapping the code inside a conditional expression
Example:
# bad
def test
if something
work
end
end
# good
def test
return unless something
work
end
# also good
def test
work if something
end
# bad
if something
raise 'exception'
else
ok
end
# good
raise 'exception' if something
ok