RuboCop RSpec

RSpec-specific analysis for your projects, as an extension to RuboCop.

Installation

Just install the rubocop-rspec gem

gem install rubocop-rspec

or if you use bundler put this in your Gemfile

gem 'rubocop-rspec'

Usage

You need to tell RuboCop to load the RSpec extension. There are three ways to do this:

RuboCop configuration file

Put this into your .rubocop.yml.

require: rubocop-rspec

Alternatively, use the following array notation when specifying multiple extensions.

require:
  - rubocop-other-extension
  - rubocop-rspec

Now you can run rubocop and it will automatically load the RuboCop RSpec cops together with the standard cops.

Command line

rubocop --require rubocop-rspec

Rake task

RuboCop::RakeTask.new do |task|
  task.requires << 'rubocop-rspec'
end

Code Climate

rubocop-rspec is available on Code Climate as part of the rubocop engine. Learn More.

Documentation

You can read more about RuboCop-RSpec in its official manual.

Inspecting files that don't end with _spec.rb

By default, rubocop-rspec only inspects code within paths ending in _spec.rb or including spec/. You can override this setting in your config file by specifying one or more patterns:

# Inspect all files
AllCops:
  RSpec:
    Patterns:
    - '.+'

# Inspect only files ending with `_test.rb`
AllCops:
  RSpec:
    Patterns:
    - '_test.rb$'

The Cops

All cops are located under lib/rubocop/cop/rspec, and contain examples/documentation.

In your .rubocop.yml, you may treat the RSpec cops just like any other cop. For example:

RSpec/FilePath:
  Exclude:
    - spec/my_poorly_named_spec_file.rb

Non-goals of RuboCop RSpec

Enforcing should vs. expect syntax

Enforcing

expect(calculator.compute(line_item)).to eq(5)

over

calculator.compute(line_item).should == 5

is a feature of RSpec itself – you can read about it in the RSpec Documentation

Enforcing an explicit RSpec receiver for top-level methods (disabling monkey patching)

Enforcing

RSpec.describe MyClass do
  ...
end

over

describe MyClass do
  ...
end

can be achieved using RSpec's disable_monkey_patching! method, which you can read more about in the RSpec Documentation. This will also prevent should from being defined on every object in your system.

Before disabling should you will need all your specs to use the expect syntax. You can use Transpec, which will do the conversion for you.

Contributing

Checkout the contribution guidelines.

License

rubocop-rspec is MIT licensed. See the accompanying file for the full text.