内容简介:In this post, I will show you how we at Evil Martians touch up codebases of our customers in 2020: from quick and dirty hacks to properway to use Standard and RuboCop configs together.Let’s pretend I have to convince you to follow code style guidelines (I
You will hardly find a Ruby developer who hasn’t heard about RuboCop , the Ruby linter and formatter. And still, it is not that hard to find a project where code style is not enforced. Usually, these are large, mature codebases, often successful ones. Fixing linting and formatting can be a challenge if it wasn’t set up correctly from the get-go. So, your RuboCop sees red! Here’s how to fix it.
In this post, I will show you how we at Evil Martians touch up codebases of our customers in 2020: from quick and dirty hacks to proper Standard -enforced style guides, and our own
way to use Standard and RuboCop configs together.
Style matters
Let’s pretend I have to convince you to follow code style guidelines (I know, I know I don’t have to!)
Here are the arguments I would use:
-
Developers understand each other much better when they
speakwrite the same language. - Onboarding new engineers becomes much easier when the code style is standardized.
- Linters help to detect and squash bugs in time.
- No more “single vs. double quotes” holy wars (double FTW)!
That was all the theory for today. Time for practice!
TODO or not TODO
So, you have joined a project with no style guide or with a .rubocop.yml
that was added years ago. You run RuboCop, and you see something like:
$ bundle exec rubocop 3306 files inspected, 12418 offenses detected
Flocks of noble
developers tried to
fix the offenses but gave up. But that doesn’t stop you—you know the magic spell:
$ bundle exec rubocop --auto-gen-config Added inheritance from `.rubocop_todo.yml` in `.rubocop.yml`. Created .rubocop_todo.yml. $ bundle exec rubocop 3306 files inspected, no offenses detected
That was simple! Toss the coin to your…
Let’s take a closer look at what --auto-gen-config
flag does:
- First, it collects all the offenses and their counts;
-
then, it generates a
.rubocop_todo.yml
where all the current offenses are ignored; -
and finally, it makes
.rubocop.yml
inherit from.rubocop_todo.yml
.
That is the way to set the status quo and only enforce style checks for new code. Sounds smart, right? Not exactly.
The way .rubocop_todo.yml
handles “ignores” depends on the cop types and the total number of current offenses:
-
For metrics cops (such as
Layout/LineLength
), the limit (Max
) is set to the maximum value for the current codebase. - All cops could be disabled if the total number of offenses hits the threshold (only 15 by default).
So, you end up with anything goes situation, and that defeats the purpose.
This article covers this problem in more detail.
What does it mean for a typical legacy codebase? Most of the new code would be ignored by RuboCop, too. We made the tool happy, but are we happy with it?
Hopefully, there is a way to generate a better TODO config by adding more options to the command:
bundle exec rubocop –-auto-gen-config \ --auto-gen-only-exclude \ --exclude-limit=10000
Where --auto-gen-only-exclude
force-excludes metrics cops instead of changing their Max
value, and --exclude-limit
sets the threshold for the exclusion (set to some large enough number to avoid disabling cops completely).
Now your .rubocop_todo.yml
won’t affect your new files or entirely new offenses in the old ones.
RuboCop doesn’t only help with style—it also saves you from common mistakes that can break your code in production. What if you had some bugs and ignored them in your TODO config? What are the cops that should never be ignored? Let me introduce the RuboCop strict configuration pattern.
You shall not pass: introducing .rubocop_strict.yml
There are a handful of cops that must be enabled for all the files independently of the .rubocop_todo.yml
. For example:
-
Lint/Debugger
—don’t leave debugging calls (e.g.,binding.pry
). -
RSpec/Focus
(fromrubocop-rspec
)—don’t forget to clear focused tests (to make sure CI runs the whole test suite).
We put such cops into a
.rubocop_strict.yml
configuration file like this:
inherit_from: - .rubocop_todo.yml Lint/Debugger: # don't leave binding.pry Enabled: true Exclude: [] RSpec/Focus: # run ALL tests on CI Enabled: true Exclude: [] Rails/Output: # Don't leave puts-debugging Enabled: true Exclude: [] Rails/FindEach: # each could severely affect the performance, use find_each Enabled: true Exclude: [] Rails/UniqBeforePluck: # uniq.pluck and not pluck.uniq Enabled: true Exclude: []
Then, we replace the TODO config with the Strict config in our base .rubocop.yml
configuration file:
inherit_from: - - .rubocop_todo.yml + - .rubocop_strict.yml
The Exclude: []
is crucial here: even if our .rubocop_todo.yml
contained exclusions for strict
cops, we nullify
them here, thus, re-activating these cops for all the files.
One Standard to rule them all
One of the biggest problems in adopting a code style is to convince everyone on the team to always use double-quotes for strings, or to add trailing commas to multiline arrays, or ro <choose-your-own-controversal-style-rule>? We are all well familiar with bikeshedding.
RuboCop provides a default configuration based on the Ruby Style Guide
. And you know what? It’s hard to find a project which follows all of the default rules, there are always reconfigured or disabled cops in the .rubocop.yml
.
That’s okay. RuboCop’s default configuration is not a golden standard ; it was never meant to be the one style to fit them all.
Should Ruby community have the only style at all? It seems that yes, we need it.
I think the main reason for that is the popularity of auto-formatters in other programming languages: JavaScript, Go, Rust, Elixir. Auto-formatters are usually very strict and allow almost none or zero configuration. And developers got used to that! People like writing code without worrying about indentation, brackets, and spaces; robots would sort it all out!
Checkout out the lightning talk and let Justin Searls convince you to switch to Standard .
Thankfully, Ruby’s ecosystem has got you covered: there is a project called Standard , which claims to be the one and only Ruby style guide .
From the technical point of view, Standard is a wrapper over RuboCop with its custom configuration and CLI ( standard
).
Unfortunately, Standard lacks some RuboCop features that are essential at the early stages of a style guide’s adoption: it is not possible to use .rubocop_todo.yml
or any other local configuration. It also doesn’t support
RuboCop plugins or custom cops.
But we can still use Standard as a style guide while continuing to use RuboCop as a linter and formatter!
For that, we can use RuboCop’s inherit_gem
directive:
# .rubocop.yml # We want Exclude directives from different # config files to get merged, not overwritten inherit_mode: merge: - Exclude require: # Performance cops are bundled with Standard - rubocop-performance # Standard's config uses this custom cop, # so it must be loaded - standard/cop/semantic_blocks inherit_gem: standard: config/base.yml inherit_from: - .rubocop_strict.yml # Sometimes we enable metrics cops # (which are disabled in Standard by default) # # Metrics: # Enabled: true
That is the configuration I use in most of my OSS and commercial projects. I can’t say I agree with all the rules, but I definitely like it more than the RuboCop’s default. That is a tiny trade-off if you think about the benefit of not arguing over the style anymore.
Don’t forget to add standard
to your Gemfile and freeze its minor version to avoid unexpected failures during upgrades:
gem "standard", "~> 0.2.0", require: false
Although the approach above allows you to tinker with the Standard configuration, I would not recommend doing that. Use this flexibility to extend the default behavior, not change it!
Beyond the Standard
RuboCop has a lot of plugins distributed as separate gems:
rubocop-rspec
,
rubocop-performance
,
rubocop-rails
,
rubocop-md
, to name a few.
Standard only includes the rubocop-performance
plugin. We usually add rubocop-rails
and rubocop-rspec
to our configuration.
For each plugin, we keep a separate YAML file: .rubocop_rails.yml
, .rubocop_rspec.yml
, etc.
Inside the base config we add these files to inherit_from
:
inherit_from: - .rubocop_rails.yml - .rubocop_rspec.yml - .rubocop_strict.yml
Our
.rubocop_rails.yml
is based on the configuration that existed in Standard
before they dropped Rails support.
There is no standard RSpec configuration, so we had to figure out our own:
.rubocop_rspec.yml
.
We also usually enable a select few custom
cops, for example,
Lint/Env
.
In the end, our typical RuboCop configuration for Rails projects looks like this:point_down:
# .rubocop.yml inherit_mode: merge: - Exclude require: - rubocop-performance - standard/cop/semantic_blocks - ./lib/cops/lint/env.rb inherit_gem: standard: config/base.yml inherit_from: - .rubocop_rails.yml - .rubocop_rspec.yml - .rubocop_strict.yml Lint/Env: Enabled: true Include: - '**/*.rb' Exclude: - '**/config/environments/**/*' - '**/config/application.rb' - '**/config/environment.rb' - '**/config/puma.rb' - '**/config/boot.rb' - '**/spec/*_helper.rb' - '**/spec/**/support/**/*' - 'lib/generators/**/*'
Feel free to use it as an inspiration for your projects that could use some RuboCop’s tough love.
RuboCop plays a vital role in the Ruby world and will stay TOP-1 for linting and formatting code for quite a long time (though competing formatters are evolving, for example, rubyfmt and prettier-ruby ). Don’t ignore RuboCop; write code in style :sunglasses:
Don’t hesitate todrop us a line if you want us to take a look at your codebase and help you set up the best Ruby ( or Go, or JavaScript, or TypeScript, or Rust… ) practices.
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