Ruby on Rails View Dependency

Description

Simple dependency lister for Ruby on Rails 2 views. Given a partial, it will list a hierarchy of all views that depend on it. This currently only handles cases where render is used specifically, such as the following example:

View Code

= render :partial => 'partial_name'

Installation

Copy the depends file to somewhere in your path

Only dependency is ruby v1.8+

Usage

Note	The program must be run within the root project directory.

Get views that depend on partial

$ depends app/views/shared/_partial_name.erb

Get full hierarchy of all dependencies

$ depends

Output Format

The output is a simple tree format

Files depending on app/shared/_ad.rhtml
-app/views/content/index.rhtml
-app/views/content/_form.rhtml
--app/views/content/new.rhtml
--app/views/content/edit.rhtml

The number of dashes - equal the number of levels deep the dependency exists.

Supported View Formats/Extensions

• .haml

• .erb

• .html.rb

• .rhtml