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Basic Usage

Running rubocop with no arguments will check all Ruby source files in the current directory:

$ rubocop

Alternatively you can pass rubocop a list of files and directories to check:

$ rubocop app spec lib/something.rb

Here's RuboCop in action. Consider the following Ruby source code:

def badName
  if something
    test
    end
end

Running RuboCop on it (assuming it's in a file named test.rb) would produce the following report:

Inspecting 1 file
W

Offenses:

test.rb:1:5: C: Use snake_case for method names.
def badName
    ^^^^^^^
test.rb:2:3: C: Use a guard clause instead of wrapping the code inside a conditional expression.
  if something
  ^^
test.rb:2:3: C: Favor modifier if usage when having a single-line body. Another good alternative is the usage of control flow &&/||.
  if something
  ^^
test.rb:4:5: W: end at 4, 4 is not aligned with if at 2, 2
    end
    ^^^

1 file inspected, 4 offenses detected

For more details check the available command-line options:

$ rubocop -h
Command flag Description
-v/--version Displays the current version and exits.
-V/--verbose-version Displays the current version plus the version of Parser and Ruby.
-L/--list-target-files List all files RuboCop will inspect.
-F/--fail-fast Inspects in modification time order and stops after first file with offenses.
-C/--cache Store and reuse results for faster operation.
-d/--debug Displays some extra debug output.
-D/--display-cop-names Displays cop names in offense messages.
-E/--extra-details Displays extra details in offense messages.
-c/--config Run with specified config file.
-f/--format Choose a formatter.
-o/--out Write output to a file instead of STDOUT.
-r/--require Require Ruby file (see Loading Extensions).
-R/--rails Run extra Rails cops.
-l/--lint Run only lint cops.
-a/--auto-correct Auto-correct certain offenses. Note: Experimental - use with caution.
--only Run only the specified cop(s) and/or cops in the specified departments.
--except Run all cops enabled by configuration except the specified cop(s) and/or departments.
--auto-gen-config Generate a configuration file acting as a TODO list.
--no-offense-counts Don't show offense counts in config file generated by --auto-gen-config
--exclude-limit Limit how many individual files --auto-gen-config can list in Exclude parameters, default is 15.
--show-cops Shows available cops and their configuration.
--fail-level Minimum severity for exit with error code. Full severity name or upper case initial can be given. Normally, auto-corrected offenses are ignored. Use A or autocorrect if you'd like them to trigger failure.
-s/--stdin Pipe source from STDIN. This is useful for editor integration.
--[no-]color Force color output on or off.
--parallel Use available CPUs to execute inspection in parallel.

Default command-line options are loaded from .rubocop and RUBOCOP_OPTS and are combined with command-line options that are explicitly passed to rubocop. Thus, the options have the following order of precedence (from highest to lowest):

  1. Explicit command-line options
  2. Options from RUBOCOP_OPTS environment variable
  3. Options from .rubocop file.

Exit codes

RuboCop exits with the following status codes:

  • 0 if no offenses are found, or if the severity of all offenses are less than --fail-level. (By default, if you use --auto-correct, offenses which are auto-corrected do not cause RuboCop to fail.)
  • 1 if one or more offenses equal or greater to --fail-level are found. (By default, this is any offense which is not auto-corrected.)
  • 2 if RuboCop terminates abnormally due to invalid configuration, invalid CLI options, or an internal error.