Enable or disable groups of cops?

[marnen]

Is it possible to set configuration options by group? I'd love to be able to do

Style:
  Enabled: false
Metrics:
  Enabled: true

Maybe even overrides:

Style:
  Enabled: false
Metrics:
  Enabled: true
Metrics/UselessMetric:
  Enabled: false

...though that may be less necessary.

Basically, what I'm looking for is a generalized version of RunRailsCops. Does this exist?

[jonas054]

No, but you can run rubocop --only Style, etc.

[bbatsov]

Probably it makes sense for us to make it possible to do this via the config. I recall I was thinking about this a while back myself.

[marnen]

@jonas054: I know about --only, but that won't work for me—I'm trying to configure the Rubocop engine on CodeClimate, and the only way to do that is with the YAML config file.

@bbatsov: It seems to me that any command line option of this sort should have an equivalent config file setting.

[jonas054]

I wonder if it's better to introduce a configuration option AllCops: CommandLineOptions, an array that would be prepended to the real command line options. It would solve a lot of current and future problems in one fell swoop, but there might also be some issues with mixing CLI and configuration like this. And it would be a detour from the road we've embarked upon before, when we added individual config options like RunRailsCops, DisplayCopNames, etc.

[bbatsov]

We already discussed this a while back, so I think it's too late for this.
But any solution would rid us of the Rails specific config, which would be
a good thing.

On Saturday, 24 October 2015, Jonas Arvidsson [email protected]
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I wonder if it's better to introduce a configuration option AllCops:
CommandLineOptions, an array that would be prepended to the real command
line options. It would solve a lot of current and future problems in one
fell swoop, but there might also be some issues with mixing CLI and
configuration like this. And it would be a detour from the road we've
embarked upon before, when we added individual config options like
RunRailsCops, DisplayCopNames, etc.

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[alexdowad]

I wonder if it's better to introduce a configuration option AllCops: CommandLineOptions

This would be very powerful, but opens a can of worms when multiple config files are used in different subdirectories. Any idea how to get around that?

[bbatsov]

As I already said - I think this would be a mistake. Let's limit the scope of the task to simply what was request here and drop the RunRailsCops option when there's a generic solution to refer to a group of cops.

[alexdowad]

Just pushed a fix for this one to my open PR.

[alexdowad]

Also added a commit which drops RunRailsCops.