Partial Inspector

A tiny, developer-focused gem to help you find where your Rails partials are used.

When working on large Rails projects, it's easy to lose track of where a partial is rendered throughout the codebase. partial_inspector scans your project and shows exactly which files render a given partial, making it much easier to refactor, test or remove unused partials confidently.

Installation

gem install partial_inspector

How it works?

  1. Open irb

  2. Require the gem:

    require "partial_inspector"

Find where a partial is used

  1. Run the scanner:
   PartialInspector.scanner.inspect_files_rendering_partial('path/to/partial')
  1. Example Output

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Find unused partials

  1. Run the scanner:
   PartialInspector.scanner.scan_unused_partials
  1. Example Output

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