debugClean, a ColdFusion Builder Extension to Check for Debug Free Code

Posted At : December 12, 2010 6:50 PM | Posted By : Sam Farmer
Related Categories: debugClean, ColdFusion Builder

Recently I wrote some code that ran beautifully on my machine. So beautiful in fact that if it was a painting it would be the Mona Lisa. I pushed it to stage and no one could get it to run.

The reason?

I had left in a console.log and cfdump output to file. The staging environment didn't like this one bit and laughed at my suggestion of the code being like the Mona Lisa.

So, I wrote ColdFusion Builder extension to check for debug code and called it debugClean. Its now up and downloadable on RIAForge. Full description:

Checks a file or folder for any debug code that should probably be stripped before moving to staging or production.
Looks for ColdFusion tags: - cfdump - writeDump - cflog - writeLog
Looks for JavaScript: - console.log
The tags and functions it looks for can be configured to your taste in the _config.cfm file.

Go get it, install it and only push our production ready code!

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This is definitely going to be useful . . . thanks!

# Posted By Lola LB | 12/13/10 7:06 AM

Hi Sam, Nice post. Have you tried adding a check to compile the code for syntax errors? I have used the cfcompile executable before but am looking for a way to call the compile via an api.

# Posted By Mike Henke | 12/13/10 9:42 AM

@Lola: Thanks! Hope it proves to be useful.

@Mike: Nope. Wouldn't those errors be shown in the editor anyway?

# Posted By Sam Farmer | 12/13/10 4:29 PM

True, the errors should show in the editor but another check wouldn't hurt.

# Posted By Mike Henke | 12/14/10 12:54 PM

Could this be ported as a cfadmin extension? To allow it to work from there? Because this does sound very useful. But I don't use cf9 or cfbuilder.

Thanks

# Posted By Craig M. Rosenblum | 12/16/10 9:56 AM

@Mike: Yeah, I could see that being useful on a whole directory.

@Craig: Sure. It wouldn't be too hard to port the code over (its basically one file anyway!) to an admin extension.

# Posted By Sam Farmer | 12/17/10 12:40 AM

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