whitesmith / whitesmith/rubycritic
Highlight entire indentical block on DuplicateCode smell
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- Dominant language
- Ruby
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Description
Right now there's just a banner under the first line where a DuplicateCode smell is detected. In this particular example the UI makes it seem as though only the method signature is duplicated. Highlighting the entire block would help make it more clear what is duplicated
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 locating the DuplicateCode smell handling and the UI code that renders its banner. Use the linked screenshot and the issue description to trace how the duplicated region is represented; done means the full duplicated block is visibly highlighted rather than only its first line.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- ruby
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100