RubyConf2019 - Digging Up Code Graves in Ruby by Noah Matisoff

RubyConf2019 - Digging Up Code Graves in Ruby by Noah Matisoff As codebases grow, having dead code is a common issue that teams need to tackle. Especially for consumer-facing products that frequently run A/B tests using feature flags, dead code paths can be a significant source of technical debt sneakily piling up. Luckily, the Ruby standard library exposes Coverage -- which is a simple, experimental code coverage measurement tool. Let's dive into how Coverage and other tools can be used and expanded to track down dead code paths in Ruby. #rubyconf2019 #confreaks