How to use Omakase Rubocop Linter/Formatter Rules for Rails

August 16, 2024

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Chris Oliver

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About This Episode

Formatting Ruby code can be a point of contention because the language is so flexible, but it

Notes

Rails has never provided any formatting / linter functionality out of the box until now. These rules serve as a starting place and focus mostly around the basics of formatting Ruby code and ensuring consistency with spacing and other little things.

The Omakase Rubocop Rails library can also be easily extended with additional Rubocop rules that your team may like to enforce.