RuboCop is a Ruby static code analyzer (a.k.a. linter) and code formatter. Out of the box it will enforce many of the guidelines outlined in the community Ruby Style Guide. Apart from reporting the problems discovered in your code, RuboCop can also automatically fix many of them for you.
RuboCop is extremely flexible and most aspects of its behavior can be tweaked via various configuration options.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Works with every major Ruby implementation.
- Autocorrection of many of the code offenses it detects.
- Robust code formatting capabilities.
- Multiple result formatters for both interactive use and for feeding data into other tools.
- Ability to have different configuration for different parts of your codebase.
- Ability to disable certain cops only for specific files or parts of files.
- Extremely flexible configuration that allows you to adapt RuboCop to pretty much every style and preference.
- It’s easy to extend RuboCop with custom cops and formatters.
- A vast number of ready-made extensions (e.g. rubocop-rails, rubocop-rspec, rubocop-performance and rubocop-minitest).
- Wide editor/IDE support.
Website: github.com/rubocop/rubocop
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Developer: Bozhidar Batsov
License: MIT License
RuboCop is written in Ruby. Learn Ruby with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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