RubyConf 2016 - Deletion Driven Development: Code to delete code! by Chris Arcand
Channel: Confreaks
Date: 2016-11-21

RubyConf 2016 - Deletion Driven Development: Code to delete code! by Chris Arcand

Good news! Ruby is a successful and mature programming language with a wealth of libraries and legacy applications that have been contributed to for many years. The bad news: Those projects might contain a large amount of useless, unused code which adds needless complexity and confuses new developers. In this talk I'll explain how to build a static analysis tool to help you find unused code and remove it - because there's no code that's easier to maintain than no code at all!