[BioRuby] teaching ruby

[Gianluca Della Vedova]

Like Rubocop (https://github.com/bbatsov/rubocop)?
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Gianluca Della Vedova
http://gianluca.dellavedova.org
On 06/11/2013 at 12:07, Yannick Wurm wrote:

>Dear list,
>
>I find that beginning programmers (biologists) complicate their own lives (for debugging) by neglecting proper indentation and variable naming.
>
>When teaching, the first thing I find myself doing when they ask me to look at their code is to:
> * get them to indent it properly
> * get them to name the variables properly
>
>Often this helps them to see for themselves what they did wrong & my job stops there.
>It would be great if this could be automated.
>Thus it would be very helpful if there were a manner to check a ruby script for consistency with a style guide (e.g. [1]).
>This could be included similarly to how perl users activate "strict mode".
>
>Do you know of something like this?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Yannick
>[1]: https://github.com/styleguide/ruby
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