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Want to resolve all those # TODO, # FIXME, and # OPTIMIZE comments in your Rails app? Good call, we don't want these getting too comfortable.

To demonstrate, push a note into a new file app/models/foo.rb:

$ echo '# TODO DRY this up!' >> app/models/foo.rb

Then run rake notes:

$ rake notes
app/models/foo.rb:
  * [1] [TODO] DRY this up!

rake -T | grep notes shows our options, including flags to filter results. We also get rake notes:custom, to find a custom note tag:

$ echo '# HACK woah.' >> app/models/foo.rb
$ rake notes:custom ANNOTATION=HACK
app/models/foo.rb:
  * [2] woah.
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