Rubocop settings not working

[chrisnicola]

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Rubocop is only working with simple settings:

   "rubocop": true

More complex settings like:

  "rubocop": {
    "lint": true,
    "rails": true
  }

Don't seem to work at all. No linting is happening

[gerrywastaken]

@chrisnicola

Ok just looked through the code to see what was happening... because I dunno... I guess I'm procrastinating...

Anyway so I suspect those settings are not doing what you think they are doing.

It's essentially running rubocop -f json --force-exclusion -l -R. Try running that against your file and see if it produces anything... I suspect it doesn't.

That's because that -l actually limits the set of rubocop checks to this much smaller set:
https://github.com/bbatsov/rubocop/tree/master/lib/rubocop/cop/lint

So I suspect what you actually want is:

"rubocop": {
    "rails": true
 }

And I think maybe the doc should be updated to make it clear what lint: true will do. I suspect to most reading that doc it seems like that's just what you specify if you want to enable Rubocop as that's what I looked like to me until I went diving into the code.

cc: @Vuneu @agamrp @al13bash @javiervidal because you gave the issue a thumbs up, so I'm guessing you ran into the same problem.

[javiervidal]

I can confirm that:

$ rubocop --force-exclusion -R -l
64 files inspected, 3 offenses detected
$ rubocop --force-exclusion -R
64 files inspected, 414 offenses detected

Thank you @gerrywastaken

[chrisnicola]

Thanks @gerrywastaken I appreciate you taking the time to look into that.

[gerrywastaken]

@javiervidal @chrisnicola You are both very welcome. I think the docs should probably be updated to show what this option does.

[rebornix]

@gerrywastaken I really appreciate your investigation and all your help here. I'll update the documentation.