Re: How to parse ruby files programmatically

Paul McKibbin <[email protected]>
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> On 7 May 2019, at 12:54, Andrey Tuzhilin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I need to parse ruby files (files, containing ruby code) and edit them. Specifically, I need:
> 
> 1. Extract the list of classes defined in file
> 2. Without them being applied in current env (if some file for instance contains `String` class method patching, I don’t want it to be patched in current ruby session)
> 
> Is there a way to accomplish this?
> 
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Hi,

Have you taken a look at RubyParser, SexpProcessor and Ruby2Ruby from the seattlerb. Using these should be a lot easier than trying to generate it with regular expressions.

Best wishes,
Paul

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