RuboCop 1.91: The Journey to 2.0 Begins

RuboCop 1.91 is out! It has the usual mix of new cops, new options and a small mountain of bug fixes, but the feature I want to talk about today is a single flag - --preview . It’s the first real step on our (long) journey to RuboCop 2.0. Since the beginning of time… …certain people have been unhappy with RuboCop’s defaults. I wrote almost exactly that sentence six years ago , right before RuboCop 1.0, when I ran a survey to work out which of our defaults were wrong. Some good came out of it ...