Running Rubocop on Github Actions

[kbrock]

How are people running rubocop on PRs into Github?

We're using CodeClimate, but they force rubocop 1.56.3, which is quite old. This version is currently throwing warnings for rubocop-ast, and also triggering security errors for us around rexml (which has had a number of CVEs over the past few years).

CodeClimate does not currently have a person championing ruby, and is not responding to requests to get a "channel" running for recent rubocop versions.

We are using the open source version and it is hard to demand something from people for free.

Anyone know the best way to encouraging Codeclimate to upgrade the version of rubocop, or have an alternative way to run rubocops on PRs and/or merges?

Thanks.

Update: change version

[Earlopain]

If I look at the docs for it today at https://docs.codeclimate.com/docs/rubocop, it shows that it is being deprecated (no idea when it started showing that). So I would say the chances of it being updated are quite low.

Seems like they want you do use https://qlty.sh instead (never head of it myself) so I guess you could do that?

[Fryguy]

Yeah CodeClimate spun out the Quality part into it's own company: https://codeclimate.com/blog/code-climate-quality-is-now-qlty-software

[Earlopain]

Right, I was wondering why they would advertise something that looked like a competitor. That makes sense, thanks.

[Skenvy]

Does it need to be through an action running rubocop? You can just install it and run: bundle exec rake rubocop. Would an action to wrap that be something people want to use?