AllCops: RunRailsCops: true Metrics/LineLength: Max: 80 # Too short methods lead to extraction of single-use methods, which can make # the code easier to read (by naming things), but can also clutter the class Metrics/MethodLength: Max: 20 # The guiding principle of classes is SRP, SRP can't be accurately measured by LoC Metrics/ClassLength: Max: 1500 # No space makes the method definition shorter and differentiates # from a regular assignment. Style/SpaceAroundEqualsInParameterDefault: EnforcedStyle: no_space # Single quotes being faster is hardly measurable and only affects parse time. # Enforcing double quotes reduces the times where you need to change them # when introducing an interpolation. Use single quotes only if their semantics # are needed. Style/StringLiterals: EnforcedStyle: double_quotes # We do not need to support Ruby 1.9, so this is good to use. Style/SymbolArray: Enabled: true # Most readable form. Style/AlignHash: EnforcedHashRocketStyle: table EnforcedColonStyle: table # Mixing the styles looks just silly. Style/HashSyntax: EnforcedStyle: ruby19_no_mixed_keys # has_key? and has_value? are far more readable than key? and value? Style/DeprecatedHashMethods: Enabled: false # String#% is by far the least verbose and only object oriented variant. Style/FormatString: EnforcedStyle: percent Style/CollectionMethods: Enabled: true PreferredMethods: # inject seems more common in the community. reduce: "inject" # Either allow this style or don't. Marking it as safe with parenthesis # is silly. Let's try to live without them for now. Style/ParenthesesAroundCondition: AllowSafeAssignment: false Lint/AssignmentInCondition: AllowSafeAssignment: false # A specialized exception class will take one or more arguments and construct the message from it. # So both variants make sense. Style/RaiseArgs: Enabled: false # Indenting the chained dots beneath each other is not supported by this cop, # see https://github.com/bbatsov/rubocop/issues/1633 Style/MultilineOperationIndentation: Enabled: false # Fail is an alias of raise. Avoid aliases, it's more cognitive load for no gain. # The argument that fail should be used to abort the program is wrong too, # there's Kernel#abort for that. Style/SignalException: EnforcedStyle: only_raise # Suppressing exceptions can be perfectly fine, and be it to avoid to # explicitly type nil into the rescue since that's what you want to return, # or suppressing LoadError for optional dependencies Lint/HandleExceptions: Enabled: false Style/SpaceInsideBlockBraces: # The space here provides no real gain in readability while consuming # horizontal space that could be used for a better parameter name. # Also {| differentiates better from a hash than { | does. SpaceBeforeBlockParameters: false # No trailing space differentiates better from the block: # foo} means hash, foo } means block. Style/SpaceInsideHashLiteralBraces: EnforcedStyle: no_space # { ... } for multi-line blocks is okay, follow Weirichs rule instead: # https://web.archive.org/web/20140221124509/http://onestepback.org/index.cgi/Tech/Ruby/BraceVsDoEnd.rdoc Style/BlockDelimiters: Enabled: false # do / end blocks should be used for side effects, # methods that run a block for side effects and have # a useful return value are rare, assign the return # value to a local variable for those cases. Style/MethodCalledOnDoEndBlock: Enabled: true # Enforcing the names of variables? To single letter ones? Just no. Style/SingleLineBlockParams: Enabled: false # Shadowing outer local variables with block parameters is often useful # to not reinvent a new name for the same thing, it highlights the relation # between the outer variable and the parameter. The cases where it's actually # confusing are rare, and usually bad for other reasons already, for example # because the method is too long. Lint/ShadowingOuterLocalVariable: Enabled: false # Check with yard instead. Style/Documentation: Enabled: false # This is just silly. Calling the argument `other` in all cases makes no sense. Style/OpMethod: Enabled: false # There are valid cases, for example debugging Cucumber steps, # also they'll fail CI anyway Lint/Debugger: Enabled: false # Style preference Style/MethodDefParentheses: Enabled: false