History

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RuboCop was created by Bozhidar Batsov in the spring of 2012, as an attempt to make it easy to apply consistently the guidelines from the community Ruby Style Guide.

Notable Milestones

  • 21 Apr 2012 - Initial commit by Bozhidar Batsov.

  • 21 Oct 2020 - RuboCop 1.0 is released (exactly 7.5 years after the first commit).