shard-ameba/README.md

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## About

Ameba is a static code analysis tool for the Crystal language.
It enforces a consistent [Crystal code style](https://crystal-lang.org/docs/conventions/coding_style.html),
also catches code smells and wrong code constructions.

See also [Roadmap](https://github.com/veelenga/ameba/wiki).

## Usage

Run `ameba` binary within your project directory to catch code issues:

```sh
$ ameba
Inspecting 107 files.

...............F.....................F....................................................................

src/ameba/rule/unneeded_disable_directive.cr:29:7
Lint/UselessAssign: Useless assignment to variable `s`

src/ameba/formatter/flycheck_formatter.cr:5:21
Lint/UnusedArgument: Unused argument `location`

Finished in 248.9 milliseconds

107 inspected, 2 failures.

```

## Installation

### As a project dependency:

Add this to your application's `shard.yml`:

```yaml
development_dependencies:
  ameba:
    github: veelenga/ameba
    version: 0.8.0
```

Build `bin/ameba` binary within your project directory while running `shards install`.

You may also want to use it on [Travis](travis-ci.org):

```yaml
# .travis.yml
language: crystal
install:
  - shards install
script:
  - crystal spec
  - bin/ameba
```

Using this config Ameba will inspect files just after the specs run. Travis will also fail
the build if some problems detected.

### OS X

```sh
$ brew tap veelenga/tap
$ brew install ameba
```

### From sources

```sh
$ git clone https://github.com/veelenga/ameba && cd ameba
$ make install
```

## Configuration

Default configuration file is `.ameba.yml`.
It allows to configure rule properties, disable specific rules and exclude sources from the rules.

Generate new file by running `ameba --gen-config`.

### Only/Except

One or more rules, or a one or more group of rules can be included or excluded
via command line arguments:

```
$ ameba --only   Lint/Syntax # runs only Lint/Syntax rule
$ ameba --only   Style,Lint  # runs only rules from Style and Lint groups
$ ameba --except Lint/Syntax # runs all rules except Lint/Syntax
$ ameba --except Style,Lint  # runs all rules except rules in Style and Lint groups
```

### Inline disabling

One or more rules or one or more group of rules can be disabled using inline directives:

```crystal
# ameba:disable Style/LargeNumbers
time = Time.epoch(1483859302)

time = Time.epoch(1483859302) # ameba:disable Style/LargeNumbers, Lint/UselessAssign

time = Time.epoch(1483859302) # ameba:disable Style, Lint
```

## Editor integration

 * Vim: [vim-crystal](https://github.com/rhysd/vim-crystal) (via [Syntastic](https://github.com/vim-syntastic/syntastic))
 * Emacs: [ameba.el](https://github.com/veelenga/ameba.el)
 * Sublime Text: [Sublime Linter Ameba](https://github.com/epergo/SublimeLinter-contrib-ameba)

## Credits & inspirations

- [Crystal Language](crystal-lang.org)
- [Rubocop](http://rubocop.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
- [Credo](http://credo-ci.org/)
- [Dogma](https://github.com/lpil/dogma)

## Contributors

- [veelenga](https://github.com/veelenga) Vitalii Elenhaupt - creator, maintainer