README.txt

= flay

home :: http://ruby.sadi.st/
repo :: https://github.com/seattlerb/flay
rdoc :: http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/flay

== DESCRIPTION:

Flay analyzes code for structural similarities. Differences in literal
values, variable, class, method names, whitespace, programming style,
braces vs do/end, etc are all ignored. Making this totally rad.

== FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

* Plugin system allows other languages to be flayed.
  * Ships with .rb and .erb. javascript and others will be available separately.
* Includes FlayTask for Rakefiles.
* Differences in literal values, variable, class, and method names are ignored.
* Differences in whitespace, programming style, braces vs do/end, etc are ignored.
* Works across files.
* Reports differences at any level of code.
* Totally rad.
* Adds a score multiplier to identical nodes.
* Run verbose to see an N-way diff of the code.

== TODO:

* Editor integration (emacs, textmate, other contributions welcome).
* Score sequence fragments (a;b;c;d;e) vs (b;c;d) etc.

== SYNOPSIS:

  % flay -v ~/Work/svn/ruby/ruby_1_8/lib/cgi.rb
  Processing /Users/ryan/Work/svn/ruby/ruby_1_8/lib/cgi.rb...
  
  Matches found in :defn (mass = 184)
    A: /Users/ryan/Work/svn/ruby/ruby_1_8/lib/cgi.rb:1470
    B: /Users/ryan/Work/svn/ruby/ruby_1_8/lib/cgi.rb:1925
  
  A: def checkbox_group(name = "", *values)
  B: def radio_group(name = "", *values)
       if name.kind_of?(Hash) then
         values = name["VALUES"]
         name = name["NAME"]
       end
       values.collect do |value|
         if value.kind_of?(String) then
  A:       (checkbox(name, value) + value)
  B:       (radio_button(name, value) + value)
         else
           if (value[(value.size - 1)] == true) then
  A:         (checkbox(name, value[0], true) + value[(value.size - 2)])
  B:         (radio_button(name, value[0], true) + value[(value.size - 2)])
           else
  A:         (checkbox(name, value[0]) + value[(value.size - 1)])
  B:         (radio_button(name, value[0]) + value[(value.size - 1)])
           end
         end
       end.to_s
     end
  
  IDENTICAL Matches found in :for (mass*2 = 144)
    A: /Users/ryan/Work/svn/ruby/ruby_1_8/lib/cgi.rb:2160
    B: /Users/ryan/Work/svn/ruby/ruby_1_8/lib/cgi.rb:2217
  
     for element in ["HTML", "BODY", "P", "DT", "DD", "LI", "OPTION", "THEAD", "TFOOT", "TBODY", "COLGROUP", "TR", "TH", "TD", "HEAD"] do
       methods = (methods + (("          def #{element.downcase}(attributes = {})\n" + nO_element_def(element)) + "          end\n"))
     end
  ...

== REQUIREMENTS:

* ruby_parser
* sexp_processor

== INSTALL:

* sudo gem install flay

== LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) Ryan Davis, Seattle.rb

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
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distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
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