How to tell Rubocop to ignore a specific directory or file

Question

My project is extending open-source classes from a third-party gem that we don\'t want to hold to the same coding standards as our own code. Refactoring the gem code isn\'t

Answer 1

For your convenience, here is the .rubocop.yml I frequently used.

See formal explanation of .rubocop.yml here.

AllCops:
  Exclude:
    - Berksfile
    - recipes/basic.rb
    - attributes/*.rb

# Customize rules
Metrics/LineLength:
  Max: 95

MethodLength:
  Max: 35

Metrics/AbcSize:
   Enabled: false

BlockLength:
  Max: 70

I constantly bump by rubocop errors and warning. Thus I've published this post.

Common Rubocop Errors: Improve Your Ruby Code Quality