RuboCop Semantics

Checks for meaningless variable names in Ruby code. An extension for RuboCop.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'rubocop-semantics', require: false

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install rubocop-semantics

Usage

# .rubocop.yml

require:
  - rubocop-semantics

Cops

Only one cop so far :)

Semantics/VariableName

Suggests to use a more descriptive name for a variable called info, data, etc.

app/lib/remote_csv_processor.rb:8:5: C: Semantics/VariableName: Use a more descriptive variable name.
    data = csv.read
    ^^^^

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/vassilevsky/rubocop-semantics

To create a new cop in this extension, run:

bundle exec rake new_cop[Semantics/RuleName]

Please cover all logic with tests.