Performance

Performance/AncestorsInclude

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Pending

No

Yes (Unsafe)

1.7

-

This cop is used to identify usages of ancestors.include? and change them to use instead.

Examples

# bad
A.ancestors.include?(B)

# good
A <= B

Performance/ArraySemiInfiniteRangeSlice

Required Ruby version: 2.7
Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Disabled

No

Yes (Unsafe)

1.9

-

This cop identifies places where slicing arrays with semi-infinite ranges can be replaced by Array#take and Array#drop. This cop was created due to a mistake in microbenchmark and hence is disabled by default. Refer https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop-performance/pull/175#issuecomment-731892717 This cop is also unsafe for string slices because strings do not have #take and #drop methods.

Examples

# bad
# array[..2]
# array[...2]
# array[2..]
# array[2...]
# array.slice(..2)

# good
array.take(3)
array.take(2)
array.drop(2)
array.drop(2)
array.take(3)

Performance/BigDecimalWithNumericArgument

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Pending

Yes

Yes

1.7

-

This cop identifies places where numeric argument to BigDecimal should be converted to string. Initializing from String is faster than from Numeric for BigDecimal.

Examples

# bad
BigDecimal(1, 2)
BigDecimal(1.2, 3, exception: true)

# good
BigDecimal('1', 2)
BigDecimal('1.2', 3, exception: true)

Performance/BindCall

Required Ruby version: 2.7
Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Enabled

Yes

Yes

1.6

-

In Ruby 2.7, UnboundMethod#bind_call has been added.

This cop identifies places where bind(obj).call(args, …​) can be replaced by bind_call(obj, args, …​).

The bind_call(obj, args, …​) method is faster than bind(obj).call(args, …​).

Examples

# bad
umethod.bind(obj).call(foo, bar)
umethod.bind(obj).(foo, bar)

# good
umethod.bind_call(obj, foo, bar)

Performance/BlockGivenWithExplicitBlock

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Pending

Yes

Yes

1.9

-

This cop identifies unnecessary use of a block_given? where explicit check of block argument would suffice.

Examples

# bad
def method(&block)
  do_something if block_given?
end

# good
def method(&block)
  do_something if block
end

# good - block is reassigned
def method(&block)
  block ||= -> { do_something }
  warn "Using default ..." unless block_given?
  # ...
end

Performance/Caller

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Enabled

Yes

Yes

0.49

1.9

This cop identifies places where caller[n] can be replaced by caller(n..n).first.

Examples

# bad
caller[1]
caller.first
caller_locations[1]
caller_locations.first

# good
caller(2..2).first
caller(1..1).first
caller_locations(2..2).first
caller_locations(1..1).first

Performance/CaseWhenSplat

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Disabled

Yes

Yes (Unsafe)

0.34

0.59

Reordering when conditions with a splat to the end of the when branches can improve performance.

Ruby has to allocate memory for the splat expansion every time that the case when statement is run. Since Ruby does not support fall through inside of case when, like some other languages do, the order of the when branches should not matter. By placing any splat expansions at the end of the list of when branches we will reduce the number of times that memory has to be allocated for the expansion. The exception to this is if multiple of your when conditions can be true for any given condition. A likely scenario for this defining a higher level when condition to override a condition that is inside of the splat expansion.

This is not a guaranteed performance improvement. If the data being processed by the case condition is normalized in a manner that favors hitting a condition in the splat expansion, it is possible that moving the splat condition to the end will use more memory, and run slightly slower.

Examples

# bad
case foo
when *condition
  bar
when baz
  foobar
end

case foo
when *[1, 2, 3, 4]
  bar
when 5
  baz
end

# good
case foo
when baz
  foobar
when *condition
  bar
end

case foo
when 1, 2, 3, 4
  bar
when 5
  baz
end

Configurable attributes

Name Default value Configurable values

AutoCorrect

false

Boolean

Performance/Casecmp

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Enabled

No

Yes (Unsafe)

0.36

-

This cop identifies places where a case-insensitive string comparison can better be implemented using casecmp. This cop is unsafe because String#casecmp and String#casecmp? behave differently when using Non-ASCII characters.

Examples

# bad
str.downcase == 'abc'
str.upcase.eql? 'ABC'
'abc' == str.downcase
'ABC'.eql? str.upcase
str.downcase == str.downcase

# good
str.casecmp('ABC').zero?
'abc'.casecmp(str).zero?

Performance/ChainArrayAllocation

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Disabled

Yes

No

0.59

-

This cop is used to identify usages of Each of these methods (compact, flatten, map) will generate a new intermediate array that is promptly thrown away. Instead it is faster to mutate when we know it’s safe.

Examples

# bad
array = ["a", "b", "c"]
array.compact.flatten.map { |x| x.downcase }
# good.
array = ["a", "b", "c"]
array.compact!
array.flatten!
array.map! { |x| x.downcase }
array

Performance/CollectionLiteralInLoop

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Pending

Yes

No

1.8

-

This cop identifies places where Array and Hash literals are used within loops. It is better to extract them into a local variable or constant to avoid unnecessary allocations on each iteration.

You can set the minimum number of elements to consider an offense with MinSize.

Examples

# bad
users.select do |user|
  %i[superadmin admin].include?(user.role)
end

# good
admin_roles = %i[superadmin admin]
users.select do |user|
  admin_roles.include?(user.role)
end

# good
ADMIN_ROLES = %i[superadmin admin]
...
users.select do |user|
  ADMIN_ROLES.include?(user.role)
end

Configurable attributes

Name Default value Configurable values

MinSize

1

Integer

Performance/CompareWithBlock

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Enabled

Yes

Yes

0.46

-

This cop identifies places where sort { |a, b| a.foo <⇒ b.foo } can be replaced by sort_by(&:foo). This cop also checks max and min methods.

Examples

# bad
array.sort { |a, b| a.foo <=> b.foo }
array.max { |a, b| a.foo <=> b.foo }
array.min { |a, b| a.foo <=> b.foo }
array.sort { |a, b| a[:foo] <=> b[:foo] }

# good
array.sort_by(&:foo)
array.sort_by { |v| v.foo }
array.sort_by do |var|
  var.foo
end
array.max_by(&:foo)
array.min_by(&:foo)
array.sort_by { |a| a[:foo] }

Performance/ConstantRegexp

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Pending

Yes

Yes

1.9

1.10

This cop finds regular expressions with dynamic components that are all constants.

Ruby allocates a new Regexp object every time it executes a code containing such a regular expression. It is more efficient to extract it into a constant, memoize it, or add an /o option to perform #{} interpolation only once and reuse that Regexp object.

Examples

# bad
def tokens(pattern)
  pattern.scan(TOKEN).reject { |token| token.match?(/\A#{SEPARATORS}\Z/) }
end

# good
ALL_SEPARATORS = /\A#{SEPARATORS}\Z/
def tokens(pattern)
  pattern.scan(TOKEN).reject { |token| token.match?(ALL_SEPARATORS) }
end

# good
def tokens(pattern)
  pattern.scan(TOKEN).reject { |token| token.match?(/\A#{SEPARATORS}\Z/o) }
end

# good
def separators
  @separators ||= /\A#{SEPARATORS}\Z/
end

Performance/Count

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Enabled

Yes

Yes (Unsafe)

0.31

1.8

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

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 }`

Examples

# 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

Performance/DeletePrefix

Required Ruby version: 2.5
Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Enabled

Yes

Yes

1.6

-

In Ruby 2.5, String#delete_prefix has been added.

This cop identifies places where gsub(/\Aprefix/, '') and sub(/\Aprefix/, '') can be replaced by delete_prefix('prefix').

This cop has SafeMultiline configuration option that true by default because ^prefix is unsafe as it will behave incompatible with delete_prefix for receiver is multiline string.

The delete_prefix('prefix') method is faster than gsub(/\Aprefix/, '').

Examples

# bad
str.gsub(/\Aprefix/, '')
str.gsub!(/\Aprefix/, '')

str.sub(/\Aprefix/, '')
str.sub!(/\Aprefix/, '')

# good
str.delete_prefix('prefix')
str.delete_prefix!('prefix')

SafeMultiline: true (default)

# good
str.gsub(/^prefix/, '')
str.gsub!(/^prefix/, '')
str.sub(/^prefix/, '')
str.sub!(/^prefix/, '')

SafeMultiline: false

# bad
str.gsub(/^prefix/, '')
str.gsub!(/^prefix/, '')
str.sub(/^prefix/, '')
str.sub!(/^prefix/, '')

Configurable attributes

Name Default value Configurable values

SafeMultiline

true

Boolean

Performance/DeleteSuffix

Required Ruby version: 2.5
Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Enabled

Yes

Yes

1.6

-

In Ruby 2.5, String#delete_suffix has been added.

This cop identifies places where gsub(/suffix\z/, '') and sub(/suffix\z/, '') can be replaced by delete_suffix('suffix').

This cop has SafeMultiline configuration option that true by default because suffix$ is unsafe as it will behave incompatible with delete_suffix? for receiver is multiline string.

The delete_suffix('suffix') method is faster than gsub(/suffix\z/, '').

Examples

# bad
str.gsub(/suffix\z/, '')
str.gsub!(/suffix\z/, '')

str.sub(/suffix\z/, '')
str.sub!(/suffix\z/, '')

# good
str.delete_suffix('suffix')
str.delete_suffix!('suffix')

SafeMultiline: true (default)

# good
str.gsub(/suffix$/, '')
str.gsub!(/suffix$/, '')
str.sub(/suffix$/, '')
str.sub!(/suffix$/, '')

SafeMultiline: false

# bad
str.gsub(/suffix$/, '')
str.gsub!(/suffix$/, '')
str.sub(/suffix$/, '')
str.sub!(/suffix$/, '')

Configurable attributes

Name Default value Configurable values

SafeMultiline

true

Boolean

Performance/Detect

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Enabled

Yes

Yes (Unsafe)

0.30

1.8

This cop is used to identify usages of first, last, [0] or [-1] chained to select, find_all or filter and change them to use detect instead.

ActiveRecord compatibility: ActiveRecord does not implement a detect method and find has its own meaning. Correcting ActiveRecord methods with this cop should be considered unsafe.

Examples

# bad
[].select { |item| true }.first
[].select { |item| true }.last
[].find_all { |item| true }.first
[].find_all { |item| true }.last
[].filter { |item| true }.first
[].filter { |item| true }.last
[].filter { |item| true }[0]
[].filter { |item| true }[-1]

# good
[].detect { |item| true }
[].reverse.detect { |item| true }

Performance/DoubleStartEndWith

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Enabled

Yes

Yes

0.36

0.48

This cop checks for double #start_with? or #end_with? calls separated by ||. In some cases such calls can be replaced with an single #start_with?/#end_with? call.

Examples

# bad
str.start_with?("a") || str.start_with?(Some::CONST)
str.start_with?("a", "b") || str.start_with?("c")
str.end_with?(var1) || str.end_with?(var2)

# good
str.start_with?("a", Some::CONST)
str.start_with?("a", "b", "c")
str.end_with?(var1, var2)

Configurable attributes

Name Default value Configurable values

IncludeActiveSupportAliases

false

Boolean

Performance/EndWith

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Enabled

Yes

Yes (Unsafe)

0.36

1.10

This cop identifies unnecessary use of a regex where String#end_with? would suffice.

This cop has SafeMultiline configuration option that true by default because end$ is unsafe as it will behave incompatible with end_with? for receiver is multiline string.

Examples

# bad
'abc'.match?(/bc\Z/)
/bc\Z/.match?('abc')
'abc' =~ /bc\Z/
/bc\Z/ =~ 'abc'
'abc'.match(/bc\Z/)
/bc\Z/.match('abc')

# good
'abc'.end_with?('bc')

SafeMultiline: true (default)

# good
'abc'.match?(/bc$/)
/bc$/.match?('abc')
'abc' =~ /bc$/
/bc$/ =~ 'abc'
'abc'.match(/bc$/)
/bc$/.match('abc')

SafeMultiline: false

# bad
'abc'.match?(/bc$/)
/bc$/.match?('abc')
'abc' =~ /bc$/
/bc$/ =~ 'abc'
'abc'.match(/bc$/)
/bc$/.match('abc')

Configurable attributes

Name Default value Configurable values

SafeMultiline

true

Boolean

Performance/FixedSize

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Enabled

Yes

No

0.35

-

Do not compute the size of statically sized objects.

Examples

# String methods
# bad
'foo'.size
%q[bar].count
%(qux).length

# Symbol methods
# bad
:fred.size
:'baz'.length

# Array methods
# bad
[1, 2, thud].count
%W(1, 2, bar).size

# Hash methods
# bad
{ a: corge, b: grault }.length

# good
foo.size
bar.count
qux.length

# good
:"#{fred}".size
CONST = :baz.length

# good
[1, 2, *thud].count
garply = [1, 2, 3]
garply.size

# good
{ a: corge, **grault }.length
waldo = { a: corge, b: grault }
waldo.size

Performance/FlatMap

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Enabled

Yes

Yes

0.30

-

This cop is used to identify usages of

Examples

# bad
[1, 2, 3, 4].map { |e| [e, e] }.flatten(1)
[1, 2, 3, 4].collect { |e| [e, e] }.flatten(1)

# good
[1, 2, 3, 4].flat_map { |e| [e, e] }
[1, 2, 3, 4].map { |e| [e, e] }.flatten
[1, 2, 3, 4].collect { |e| [e, e] }.flatten

Configurable attributes

Name Default value Configurable values

EnabledForFlattenWithoutParams

false

Boolean

Performance/InefficientHashSearch

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Enabled

No

Yes (Unsafe)

0.56

-

This cop checks for inefficient searching of keys and values within hashes.

Hash#keys.include? is less efficient than Hash#key? because the former allocates a new array and then performs an O(n) search through that array, while Hash#key? does not allocate any array and performs a faster O(1) search for the key.

Hash#values.include? is less efficient than Hash#value?. While they both perform an O(n) search through all of the values, calling values allocates a new array while using value? does not.

Examples

# bad
{ a: 1, b: 2 }.keys.include?(:a)
{ a: 1, b: 2 }.keys.include?(:z)
h = { a: 1, b: 2 }; h.keys.include?(100)

# good
{ a: 1, b: 2 }.key?(:a)
{ a: 1, b: 2 }.has_key?(:z)
h = { a: 1, b: 2 }; h.key?(100)

# bad
{ a: 1, b: 2 }.values.include?(2)
{ a: 1, b: 2 }.values.include?('garbage')
h = { a: 1, b: 2 }; h.values.include?(nil)

# good
{ a: 1, b: 2 }.value?(2)
{ a: 1, b: 2 }.has_value?('garbage')
h = { a: 1, b: 2 }; h.value?(nil)

Performance/IoReadlines

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Disabled

Yes

Yes

1.7

-

This cop identifies places where inefficient readlines method can be replaced by each_line to avoid fully loading file content into memory.

Examples

# bad
File.readlines('testfile').each { |l| puts l }
IO.readlines('testfile', chomp: true).each { |l| puts l }

conn.readlines(10).map { |l| l.size }
file.readlines.find { |l| l.start_with?('#') }
file.readlines.each { |l| puts l }

# good
File.open('testfile', 'r').each_line { |l| puts l }
IO.open('testfile').each_line(chomp: true) { |l| puts l }

conn.each_line(10).map { |l| l.size }
file.each_line.find { |l| l.start_with?('#') }
file.each_line { |l| puts l }

Performance/MethodObjectAsBlock

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Pending

Yes

No

1.9

-

This cop identifies places where methods are converted to blocks, with the use of &method, and passed as arguments to method calls. It is faster to replace those with explicit blocks, calling those methods inside.

Examples

# bad
array.map(&method(:do_something))
[1, 2, 3].each(&out.method(:puts))

# good
array.map { |x| do_something(x) }
[1, 2, 3].each { |x| out.puts(x) }

Performance/OpenStruct

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Disabled

No

No

0.61

-

This cop checks for OpenStruct.new calls. Instantiation of an OpenStruct invalidates Ruby global method cache as it causes dynamic method definition during program runtime. This could have an effect on performance, especially in case of single-threaded applications with multiple OpenStruct instantiations.

Examples

# bad
class MyClass
  def my_method
    OpenStruct.new(my_key1: 'my_value1', my_key2: 'my_value2')
  end
end

# good
class MyClass
  MyStruct = Struct.new(:my_key1, :my_key2)
  def my_method
    MyStruct.new('my_value1', 'my_value2')
  end
end

Performance/RangeInclude

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Enabled

No

Yes (Unsafe)

0.36

1.7

This cop identifies uses of Range#include? and Range#member?, which iterates over each item in a Range to see if a specified item is there. In contrast, Range#cover? simply compares the target item with the beginning and end points of the Range. In a great majority of cases, this is what is wanted.

This cop is Safe: false by default because Range#include? (or Range#member?) and Range#cover? are not equivalent behaviour.

Examples

# bad
('a'..'z').include?('b') # => true
('a'..'z').member?('b')  # => true

# good
('a'..'z').cover?('b') # => true

# Example of a case where `Range#cover?` may not provide
# the desired result:

('a'..'z').cover?('yellow') # => true

Performance/RedundantBlockCall

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Enabled

Yes

Yes

0.36

-

This cop identifies the use of a &block parameter and block.call where yield would do just as well.

Examples

# bad
def method(&block)
  block.call
end
def another(&func)
  func.call 1, 2, 3
end

# good
def method
  yield
end
def another
  yield 1, 2, 3
end

Performance/RedundantEqualityComparisonBlock

Required Ruby version: 2.5
Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Pending

No

Yes (Unsafe)

1.10

-

This cop checks for uses Enumerable#all?, Enumerable#any?, Enumerable#one?, and Enumerable#none? are compared with === or similar methods in block.

By default, Object#=== behaves the same as Object#==, but this behavior is appropriately overridden in subclass. For example, Range#=== returns true when argument is within the range. Therefore, It is marked as unsafe by default because === and == do not always behave the same.

Examples

# bad
items.all? { |item| pattern === item }
items.all? { |item| item == other }
items.all? { |item| item.is_a?(Klass) }
items.all? { |item| item.kind_of?(Klass) }

# good
items.all?(pattern)

Performance/RedundantMatch

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Enabled

Yes

Yes

0.36

-

This cop identifies the use of Regexp#match or String#match, which returns #<MatchData>/nil. The return value of =~ is an integral index/nil and is more performant.

Examples

# bad
do_something if str.match(/regex/)
while regex.match('str')
  do_something
end

# good
method(str =~ /regex/)
return value unless regex =~ 'str'

Performance/RedundantMerge

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Enabled

Yes

Yes

0.36

-

This cop identifies places where Hash#merge! can be replaced by Hash#[]=. You can set the maximum number of key-value pairs to consider an offense with MaxKeyValuePairs.

Examples

# bad
hash.merge!(a: 1)
hash.merge!({'key' => 'value'})

# good
hash[:a] = 1
hash['key'] = 'value'

MaxKeyValuePairs: 2 (default)

# bad
hash.merge!(a: 1, b: 2)

# good
hash[:a] = 1
hash[:b] = 2

Configurable attributes

Name Default value Configurable values

MaxKeyValuePairs

2

Integer

Performance/RedundantSortBlock

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Pending

Yes

Yes

1.7

-

This cop identifies places where sort { |a, b| a <⇒ b } can be replaced with sort.

Examples

# bad
array.sort { |a, b| a <=> b }

# good
array.sort

Performance/RedundantSplitRegexpArgument

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Pending

Yes

Yes

1.10

-

This cop identifies places where split argument can be replaced from a deterministic regexp to a string.

Examples

# bad
'a,b,c'.split(/,/)

# good
'a,b,c'.split(',')

Performance/RedundantStringChars

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Pending

Yes

Yes

1.7

-

This cop checks for redundant String#chars.

Examples

# bad
str.chars[0..2]
str.chars.slice(0..2)

# good
str[0..2].chars

# bad
str.chars.first
str.chars.first(2)
str.chars.last
str.chars.last(2)

# good
str[0]
str[0...2].chars
str[-1]
str[-2..-1].chars

# bad
str.chars.take(2)
str.chars.drop(2)
str.chars.length
str.chars.size
str.chars.empty?

# good
str[0...2].chars
str[2..-1].chars
str.length
str.size
str.empty?

Performance/RegexpMatch

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Enabled

Yes

Yes

0.47

-

In Ruby 2.4, String#match?, Regexp#match?, and Symbol#match? have been added. The methods are faster than match. Because the methods avoid creating a MatchData object or saving backref. So, when MatchData is not used, use match? instead of match.

Examples

# bad
def foo
  if x =~ /re/
    do_something
  end
end

# bad
def foo
  if x !~ /re/
    do_something
  end
end

# bad
def foo
  if x.match(/re/)
    do_something
  end
end

# bad
def foo
  if /re/ === x
    do_something
  end
end

# good
def foo
  if x.match?(/re/)
    do_something
  end
end

# good
def foo
  if !x.match?(/re/)
    do_something
  end
end

# good
def foo
  if x =~ /re/
    do_something(Regexp.last_match)
  end
end

# good
def foo
  if x.match(/re/)
    do_something($~)
  end
end

# good
def foo
  if /re/ === x
    do_something($~)
  end
end

Performance/ReverseEach

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Enabled

Yes

Yes

0.30

-

This cop is used to identify usages of reverse.each and change them to use reverse_each instead.

If the return value is used, it will not be detected because the result will be different.

[1, 2, 3].reverse.each {} #=> [3, 2, 1]
[1, 2, 3].reverse_each {} #=> [1, 2, 3]

Examples

# bad
items.reverse.each

# good
items.reverse_each

Performance/ReverseFirst

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Pending

Yes

Yes

1.7

-

This cop identifies places where reverse.first(n) and reverse.first can be replaced by last(n).reverse and last.

Examples

# bad
array.reverse.first(5)
array.reverse.first

# good
array.last(5).reverse
array.last

Performance/Size

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Enabled

Yes

Yes

0.30

-

This cop is used to identify usages of count on an Array and Hash and change them to size.

TODO: Add advanced detection of variables that could have been assigned to an array or a hash.

Examples

# bad
[1, 2, 3].count
(1..3).to_a.count
Array[*1..3].count
Array(1..3).count

# bad
{a: 1, b: 2, c: 3}.count
[[:foo, :bar], [1, 2]].to_h.count
Hash[*('a'..'z')].count
Hash(key: :value).count

# good
[1, 2, 3].size
(1..3).to_a.size
Array[*1..3].size
Array(1..3).size

# good
{a: 1, b: 2, c: 3}.size
[[:foo, :bar], [1, 2]].to_h.size
Hash[*('a'..'z')].size
Hash(key: :value).size

# good
[1, 2, 3].count { |e| e > 2 }

Performance/SortReverse

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Pending

Yes

Yes

1.7

-

This cop identifies places where sort { |a, b| b <⇒ a } can be replaced by a faster sort.reverse.

Examples

# bad
array.sort { |a, b| b <=> a }

# good
array.sort.reverse

Performance/Squeeze

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Pending

Yes

Yes

1.7

-

This cop identifies places where gsub(/a+/, 'a') and gsub!(/a+/, 'a') can be replaced by squeeze('a') and squeeze!('a').

The squeeze('a') method is faster than gsub(/a+/, 'a').

Examples

# bad
str.gsub(/a+/, 'a')
str.gsub!(/a+/, 'a')

# good
str.squeeze('a')
str.squeeze!('a')

Performance/StartWith

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Enabled

Yes

Yes (Unsafe)

0.36

1.10

This cop identifies unnecessary use of a regex where String#start_with? would suffice.

This cop has SafeMultiline configuration option that true by default because ^start is unsafe as it will behave incompatible with start_with? for receiver is multiline string.

Examples

# bad
'abc'.match?(/\Aab/)
/\Aab/.match?('abc')
'abc' =~ /\Aab/
/\Aab/ =~ 'abc'
'abc'.match(/\Aab/)
/\Aab/.match('abc')

# good
'abc'.start_with?('ab')

SafeMultiline: true (default)

# good
'abc'.match?(/^ab/)
/^ab/.match?('abc')
'abc' =~ /^ab/
/^ab/ =~ 'abc'
'abc'.match(/^ab/)
/^ab/.match('abc')

SafeMultiline: false

# bad
'abc'.match?(/^ab/)
/^ab/.match?('abc')
'abc' =~ /^ab/
/^ab/ =~ 'abc'
'abc'.match(/^ab/)
/^ab/.match('abc')

Configurable attributes

Name Default value Configurable values

SafeMultiline

true

Boolean

Performance/StringInclude

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Pending

Yes

Yes (Unsafe)

1.7

-

This cop identifies unnecessary use of a regex where String#include? would suffice.

This cop’s offenses are not safe to auto-correct if a receiver is nil.

Examples

# bad
'abc'.match?(/ab/)
/ab/.match?('abc')
'abc' =~ /ab/
/ab/ =~ 'abc'
'abc'.match(/ab/)
/ab/.match('abc')

# good
'abc'.include?('ab')

Configurable attributes

Name Default value Configurable values

AutoCorrect

false

Boolean

Performance/StringReplacement

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Enabled

Yes

Yes

0.33

-

This cop identifies places where gsub can be replaced by tr or delete.

Examples

# bad
'abc'.gsub('b', 'd')
'abc'.gsub('a', '')
'abc'.gsub(/a/, 'd')
'abc'.gsub!('a', 'd')

# good
'abc'.gsub(/.*/, 'a')
'abc'.gsub(/a+/, 'd')
'abc'.tr('b', 'd')
'a b c'.delete(' ')

Performance/Sum

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Pending

Yes

Yes

1.8

-

This cop identifies places where custom code finding the sum of elements in some Enumerable object can be replaced by Enumerable#sum method.

This cop can change auto-correction scope depending on the value of SafeAutoCorrect. Its auto-correction is marked as safe by default (SafeAutoCorrect: true) to prevent TypeError in auto-correced code when initial value is not specified as shown below:

['a', 'b'].sum # => (String can't be coerced into Integer)

Therefore if initial value is not specified, unsafe auto-corrected will not occur.

If you always want to enable auto-correction, you can set SafeAutoCorrect: false.

Performance/Sum:
  SafeAutoCorrect: false

Please note that the auto-correction command line option will be changed from rubocop -a to rubocop -A, which includes unsafe auto-correction.

Examples

# bad
[1, 2, 3].inject(:+)                        # These bad cases with no initial value are unsafe and
[1, 2, 3].inject(&:+)                       # will not be auto-correced by default. If you want to
[1, 2, 3].reduce { |acc, elem| acc + elem } # auto-corrected, you can set `SafeAutoCorrect: false`.
[1, 2, 3].reduce(10, :+)
[1, 2, 3].map { |elem| elem ** 2 }.sum
[1, 2, 3].collect(&:count).sum(10)

# good
[1, 2, 3].sum
[1, 2, 3].sum(10)
[1, 2, 3].sum { |elem| elem ** 2 }
[1, 2, 3].sum(10, &:count)

Performance/TimesMap

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Enabled

Yes

Yes (Unsafe)

0.36

0.50

This cop checks for .times.map calls. In most cases such calls can be replaced with an explicit array creation.

Examples

# bad
9.times.map do |i|
  i.to_s
end

# good
Array.new(9) do |i|
  i.to_s
end

Configurable attributes

Name Default value Configurable values

AutoCorrect

false

Boolean

Performance/UnfreezeString

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Enabled

Yes

Yes (Unsafe)

0.50

1.9

In Ruby 2.3 or later, use unary plus operator to unfreeze a string literal instead of String#dup and String.new. Unary plus operator is faster than String#dup.

String.new (without operator) is not exactly the same as +''. These differ in encoding. String.new.encoding is always ASCII-8BIT. However, (+'').encoding is the same as script encoding(e.g. UTF-8). Therefore, auto-correction is unsafe. So, if you expect ASCII-8BIT encoding, disable this cop.

Examples

# bad
''.dup
"something".dup
String.new
String.new('')
String.new('something')

# good
+'something'
+''

Performance/UriDefaultParser

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Enabled

Yes

Yes

0.50

-

This cop identifies places where URI::Parser.new can be replaced by URI::DEFAULT_PARSER.

Examples

# bad
URI::Parser.new

# good
URI::DEFAULT_PARSER