[BioRuby] teaching ruby

[Yannick Wurm]

excellent!

(now if only "require 'rubycop'" would make it give warnings every time that script is run). 

Cheers,

Yannick

On 6 Nov 2013, at 13:03, Gianluca Della Vedova wrote:

> Like Rubocop (https://github.com/bbatsov/rubocop)?
> -- 
> 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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