Investigate the possibility of add-ons enhancing find references
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Description
There are certain situations where references to declarations may exist in a DSL form. For example, in Rails, if you were to rename/find references for a model, then associations made to that model should be included as well.
class Post
end
class User
has_many :posts # <<< this should be counted as a reference to the `Post` class, despite being a symbol
end
We will need to study what use cases exist and how to allow for this. Maybe this should be a concern of indexing enhancements and we should expedite the work to merge the reference finder with the declaration listener.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by cataloguing the DSL reference use cases described in the issue, including Rails associations such as has_many :posts. Then investigate the indexing enhancements and the proposed merge of the reference finder with the declaration listener; done means an agreed design and implementation path for recognizing these references.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- ruby
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100