Gemspec

Gemspec/DuplicatedAssignment

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Enabled

Yes

No

0.52

-

An attribute assignment method calls should be listed only once in a gemspec.

Assigning to an attribute with the same name using spec.foo = will be an unintended usage. On the other hand, duplication of methods such as spec.requirements, spec.add_runtime_dependency, and others are permitted because it is the intended use of appending values.

Examples

# bad
Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
  spec.name = 'rubocop'
  spec.name = 'rubocop2'
end

# good
Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
  spec.name = 'rubocop'
end

# good
Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
  spec.requirements << 'libmagick, v6.0'
  spec.requirements << 'A good graphics card'
end

# good
Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
  spec.add_runtime_dependency('parallel', '~> 1.10')
  spec.add_runtime_dependency('parser', '>= 2.3.3.1', '< 3.0')
end

Configurable attributes

Name Default value Configurable values

Include

**/*.gemspec

Array

Gemspec/OrderedDependencies

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Enabled

Yes

Yes

0.51

-

Dependencies in the gemspec should be alphabetically sorted.

Examples

# bad
spec.add_dependency 'rubocop'
spec.add_dependency 'rspec'

# good
spec.add_dependency 'rspec'
spec.add_dependency 'rubocop'

# good
spec.add_dependency 'rubocop'

spec.add_dependency 'rspec'

# bad
spec.add_development_dependency 'rubocop'
spec.add_development_dependency 'rspec'

# good
spec.add_development_dependency 'rspec'
spec.add_development_dependency 'rubocop'

# good
spec.add_development_dependency 'rubocop'

spec.add_development_dependency 'rspec'

# bad
spec.add_runtime_dependency 'rubocop'
spec.add_runtime_dependency 'rspec'

# good
spec.add_runtime_dependency 'rspec'
spec.add_runtime_dependency 'rubocop'

# good
spec.add_runtime_dependency 'rubocop'

spec.add_runtime_dependency 'rspec'

# good only if TreatCommentsAsGroupSeparators is true
# For code quality
spec.add_dependency 'rubocop'
# For tests
spec.add_dependency 'rspec'

Configurable attributes

Name Default value Configurable values

TreatCommentsAsGroupSeparators

true

Boolean

ConsiderPunctuation

false

Boolean

Include

**/*.gemspec

Array

Gemspec/RequiredRubyVersion

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Enabled

Yes

No

0.52

0.89

Checks that required_ruby_version of gemspec is specified and equal to TargetRubyVersion of .rubocop.yml. Thereby, RuboCop to perform static analysis working on the version required by gemspec.

Examples

# When `TargetRubyVersion` of .rubocop.yml is `2.5`.

# bad
Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
  # no `required_ruby_version` specified
end

# bad
Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
  spec.required_ruby_version = '>= 2.4.0'
end

# bad
Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
  spec.required_ruby_version = '>= 2.6.0'
end

# good
Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
  spec.required_ruby_version = '>= 2.5.0'
end

# good
Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
  spec.required_ruby_version = '>= 2.5'
end

# accepted but not recommended
Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
  spec.required_ruby_version = ['>= 2.5.0', '< 2.7.0']
end

# accepted but not recommended, since
# Ruby does not really follow semantic versionning
Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
  spec.required_ruby_version = '~> 2.5'
end

Configurable attributes

Name Default value Configurable values

Include

**/*.gemspec

Array

Gemspec/RubyVersionGlobalsUsage

Enabled by default Safe Supports autocorrection VersionAdded VersionChanged

Enabled

Yes

No

0.72

-

Checks that RUBY_VERSION constant is not used in gemspec. Using RUBY_VERSION is dangerous because value of the constant is determined by rake release. It’s possible to have dependency based on ruby version used to execute rake release and not user’s ruby version.

Examples

# bad
Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
  if RUBY_VERSION >= '2.5'
    spec.add_runtime_dependency 'gem_a'
  else
    spec.add_runtime_dependency 'gem_b'
  end
end

# good
Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
  spec.add_runtime_dependency 'gem_a'
end

Configurable attributes

Name Default value Configurable values

Include

**/*.gemspec

Array

References