Re:The Grep Test
by vidarh on Friday July 12, 2013 @10:56PM
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Theoretically, for constrained cases yes.
On the other hand, the typical Ruby ORM defines methods that corresponds to the current columns of tables in the database it is told to connect to. That fancy AST parsing tool won't be able to do anything in that case without being able to connect to your database and issue queries...
You might consider this "hacked together" but those kinds of api's is a major part of the draw of Ruby for a lot of people.
On the other hand, the typical Ruby ORM defines methods that corresponds to the current columns of tables in the database it is told to connect to. That fancy AST parsing tool won't be able to do anything in that case without being able to connect to your database and issue queries...
You might consider this "hacked together" but those kinds of api's is a major part of the draw of Ruby for a lot of people.