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'Did you mean?' experience in Ruby. No, Really.

Installation

This gem will automatically be activated when a Ruby process starts up. No special setup is required.

Examples

NameError

Correcting a Misspelled Method Name

class User
  attr_accessor :first_name, :last_name

  def to_s
    "#{f1rst_name} #{last_name}" # f1rst_name ???
  end
end

user.to_s
# => NameError: undefined local variable or method `f1rst_name' for #<User:0x0000000928fad8>
#
#     Did you mean? #first_name
#

Correcting a Misspelled Class Name

class Book
  class TableOfContents
    # ...
  end
end

Book::TableofContents # TableofContents ???
# => NameError: uninitialized constant Book::TableofContents
#
#     Did you mean? Book::TableOfContents
#

Suggesting an instance variable name

@full_name = "Yuki Nishijima"
first_name, last_name = full_name.split(" ")
# => NameError: undefined local variable or method `full_name' for main:Object
#
#     Did you mean? @full_name
#

NoMethodError

# In a Rails controller:
params.with_inddiferent_access
# => NoMethodError: undefined method `with_inddiferent_access' for {}:Hash
#
#     Did you mean? #with_indifferent_access
#

'Did You Mean' Experience is Everywhere

did_you_mean gem automagically puts method corrections into the error message. This means you'll have the "Did you mean?" experience almost everywhere:

Did you mean? on BetterErrors

Contributing

  1. Fork it (http://github.com/yuki24/did_you_mean/fork)
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request

License

Copyright (c) 2015 Yuki Nishijima. See MIT-LICENSE for further details.