How do you remove functionality from a program in ruby?

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Published on 2010-05-05T01:09:55Z Indexed on 2010/05/05 1:18 UTC
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You have some code you want to remove associated with an obsolete piece of functionality from a ruby project. How do ensure that you get rid of all of the code?

Some guidelines that usually help in refactoring ruby apply, but there are added challenges because having code that isn't being called by anything won't break any unit tests.

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