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Parsing is the process of taking your code and turning it into an abstract syntax tree, a powerful abstraction that allows you to write code that works on code itself with ease. Let's talk about what abstract syntax trees are and discuss two gems that are leveraging their power.
Description
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Parsing is the process of taking your code and turning it into an abstract syntax tree, a powerful abstraction that allows you to write code that works on code itself with ease.
Let's talk about what abstract syntax trees are and discuss two gems that are leveraging their power.
The first gem we will look at is the Reek gem, a static code analyzer that examines Ruby classes, modules and methods and reports any Code Smells it finds.
We'll see in detail how Reek is wired up internally to parse the given source code into an abstract syntax tree, construct a tree of contexts out of it and then run various smell detectors on it.
The second gem we will look at is the Mutant gem, one of the most advanced mutation testing tools for Ruby, that uses the same parser under the hood as Reek (the Parser gem) but has a vastly different approach how it operates on the abstract syntax tree.
Notes
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Why I believe I'm qualified to speak about this subject
I'm one of the current maintainers of the Reek gem. I regularly blog about advanced technical topics. At the moment I'm also working on an article series about the Mutant gem.
Technical requirements
The presentation is done via reveal.js but I can easily create a pdf out of this.
Bio This field supports Markdown. Your bio sells you. Who are you? Why should people listen to you? Who's your favorite member of One Direction? This is your chance to put it all out there.
I'm a long time Ruby developer and tech evangelist who's in love with all sorts of programming languages. I work as director of engineering at Blacklane in lovely Berlin and I am one of the maintainers of the awesome Reek gem, a static code analyzer that leverages the power of abstract syntax trees.
Additional Information
"What makes you a qualified person to speak about the proposed subject?"
I already talked about this in the notes above but let me just c&p it here for convenience:
I'm one of the current maintainers of the Reek gem. I regularly blog about advanced technical topics. At the moment I'm also working on an article series about the Mutant gem.
"Have you given this talk before at another conference? If so, where/when?"
No, I only have given this talk to my team at Blacklane.
"Are you a first-time speaker?"
No, but I'm also not an experienced conference speaker. The biggest talk I have given so far was a tech talk at Zalando with ~150 attendees.