ManageIQ/manageiq

Checks for the presence of a return inside a begin..end block in assignment contexts. In this situation, the return will result in an exit from the current method, possibly leading to unexpected behavior.

Example:

# bad

@some_variable ||= begin
  return some_value if some_condition_is_met

  do_something
end

Example:

# good

@some_variable ||= begin
  if some_condition_is_met
    some_value
  else
    do_something
  end
end

# good

some_variable = if some_condition_is_met
                  return if another_condition_is_met

                  some_value
                else
                  do_something
                end

Checks for non-atomic file operation. And then replace it with a nearly equivalent and atomic method.

These can cause problems that are difficult to reproduce, especially in cases of frequent file operations in parallel, such as test runs with parallel_rspec.

For examples: creating a directory if there is none, has the following problems

An exception occurs when the directory didn't exist at the time of exist?, but someone else created it before mkdir was executed.

Subsequent processes are executed without the directory that should be there when the directory existed at the time of exist?, but someone else deleted it shortly afterwards.

Safety:

This cop is unsafe, because autocorrection change to atomic processing. The atomic processing of the replacement destination is not guaranteed to be strictly equivalent to that before the replacement.

Example:

# bad - race condition with another process may result in an error in `mkdir`
unless Dir.exist?(path)
  FileUtils.mkdir(path)
end

# good - atomic and idempotent creation
FileUtils.mkdir_p(path)

# bad - race condition with another process may result in an error in `remove`
if File.exist?(path)
  FileUtils.remove(path)
end

# good - atomic and idempotent removal
FileUtils.rm_f(path)

Looks for expressions containing multiple binary operators where precedence is ambiguous due to lack of parentheses. For example, in 1 + 2 * 3, the multiplication will happen before the addition, but lexically it appears that the addition will happen first.

The cop does not consider unary operators (ie. !a or -b) or comparison operators (ie. a =~ b) because those are not ambiguous.

NOTE: Ranges are handled by Lint/AmbiguousRange.

Example:

# bad
a + b * c
a || b && c
a ** b + c

# good (different precedence)
a + (b * c)
a || (b && c)
(a ** b) + c

# good (same precedence)
a + b + c
a * b / c % d

Checks for excessive nesting of conditional and looping constructs.

You can configure if blocks are considered using the CountBlocks option. When set to false (the default) blocks are not counted towards the nesting level. Set to true to count blocks as well.

The maximum level of nesting allowed is configurable.

Checks for excessive nesting of conditional and looping constructs.

You can configure if blocks are considered using the CountBlocks option. When set to false (the default) blocks are not counted towards the nesting level. Set to true to count blocks as well.

The maximum level of nesting allowed is configurable.

Checks that there are no repeated bodies within if/unless, case-when, case-in and rescue constructs.

With IgnoreLiteralBranches: true, branches are not registered as offenses if they return a basic literal value (string, symbol, integer, float, rational, complex, true, false, or nil), or return an array, hash, regexp or range that only contains one of the above basic literal values.

With IgnoreConstantBranches: true, branches are not registered as offenses if they return a constant value.

Example:

# bad
if foo
  do_foo
  do_something_else
elsif bar
  do_foo
  do_something_else
end

# good
if foo || bar
  do_foo
  do_something_else
end

# bad
case x
when foo
  do_foo
when bar
  do_foo
else
  do_something_else
end

# good
case x
when foo, bar
  do_foo
else
  do_something_else
end

# bad
begin
  do_something
rescue FooError
  handle_error
rescue BarError
  handle_error
end

# good
begin
  do_something
rescue FooError, BarError
  handle_error
end

Example: IgnoreLiteralBranches: true

# good
case size
when "small" then 100
when "medium" then 250
when "large" then 1000
else 250
end

Example: IgnoreConstantBranches: true

# good
case size
when "small" then SMALL_SIZE
when "medium" then MEDIUM_SIZE
when "large" then LARGE_SIZE
else MEDIUM_SIZE
end

Checks for rescue blocks targeting the Exception class.

Example:

# bad

begin
  do_something
rescue Exception
  handle_exception
end

Example:

# good

begin
  do_something
rescue ArgumentError
  handle_exception
end

Do not define constants within a block, since the block's scope does not isolate or namespace the constant in any way.

If you are trying to define that constant once, define it outside of the block instead, or use a variable or method if defining the constant in the outer scope would be problematic.

For meta-programming, use const_set.

Example:

# bad
task :lint do
  FILES_TO_LINT = Dir['lib/*.rb']
end

# bad
describe 'making a request' do
  class TestRequest; end
end

# bad
module M
  extend ActiveSupport::Concern
  included do
    LIST = []
  end
end

# good
task :lint do
  files_to_lint = Dir['lib/*.rb']
end

# good
describe 'making a request' do
  let(:test_request) { Class.new }
  # see also `stub_const` for RSpec
end

# good
module M
  extend ActiveSupport::Concern
  included do
    const_set(:LIST, [])
  end
end

Example: AllowedMethods: ['enums'] (default)

# good

# `enums` for Typed Enums via `T::Enum` in Sorbet.
# https://sorbet.org/docs/tenum
class TestEnum < T::Enum
  enums do
    Foo = new("foo")
  end
end

Checks for excessive nesting of conditional and looping constructs.

You can configure if blocks are considered using the CountBlocks option. When set to false (the default) blocks are not counted towards the nesting level. Set to true to count blocks as well.

The maximum level of nesting allowed is configurable.

Looks for expressions containing multiple binary operators where precedence is ambiguous due to lack of parentheses. For example, in 1 + 2 * 3, the multiplication will happen before the addition, but lexically it appears that the addition will happen first.

The cop does not consider unary operators (ie. !a or -b) or comparison operators (ie. a =~ b) because those are not ambiguous.

NOTE: Ranges are handled by Lint/AmbiguousRange.

Example:

# bad
a + b * c
a || b && c
a ** b + c

# good (different precedence)
a + (b * c)
a || (b && c)
(a ** b) + c

# good (same precedence)
a + b + c
a * b / c % d

Checks for operators, variables, literals, lambda, proc and nonmutating methods used in void context.

Example: CheckForMethodsWithNoSideEffects: false (default)

# bad
def some_method
  some_num * 10
  do_something
end

def some_method(some_var)
  some_var
  do_something
end

Example: CheckForMethodsWithNoSideEffects: true

# bad
def some_method(some_array)
  some_array.sort
  do_something(some_array)
end

# good
def some_method
  do_something
  some_num * 10
end

def some_method(some_var)
  do_something
  some_var
end

def some_method(some_array)
  some_array.sort!
  do_something(some_array)
end

Checks for excessive nesting of conditional and looping constructs.

You can configure if blocks are considered using the CountBlocks option. When set to false (the default) blocks are not counted towards the nesting level. Set to true to count blocks as well.

The maximum level of nesting allowed is configurable.

Checks for rescue blocks targeting the Exception class.

Example:

# bad

begin
  do_something
rescue Exception
  handle_exception
end

Example:

# good

begin
  do_something
rescue ArgumentError
  handle_exception
end

Checks for rescue blocks targeting the Exception class.

Example:

# bad

begin
  do_something
rescue Exception
  handle_exception
end

Example:

# good

begin
  do_something
rescue ArgumentError
  handle_exception
end

This cop is used to identify usages of count on an Enumerable that follow calls to select or reject. Querying logic can instead be passed to the count call.

Example:

# bad
[1, 2, 3].select { |e| e > 2 }.size
[1, 2, 3].reject { |e| e > 2 }.size
[1, 2, 3].select { |e| e > 2 }.length
[1, 2, 3].reject { |e| e > 2 }.length
[1, 2, 3].select { |e| e > 2 }.count { |e| e.odd? }
[1, 2, 3].reject { |e| e > 2 }.count { |e| e.even? }
array.select(&:value).count

# good
[1, 2, 3].count { |e| e > 2 }
[1, 2, 3].count { |e| e < 2 }
[1, 2, 3].count { |e| e > 2 && e.odd? }
[1, 2, 3].count { |e| e < 2 && e.even? }
Model.select('field AS field_one').count
Model.select(:value).count

ActiveRecord compatibility: ActiveRecord will ignore the block that is passed to count. Other methods, such as select, will convert the association to an array and then run the block on the array. A simple work around to make count work with a block is to call to_a.count {...}.

Example: Model.where(id: [1, 2, 3].select { |m| m.method == true }.size

becomes:

Model.where(id: [1, 2, 3]).to_a.count { |m| m.method == true }