Add rubocop.yml

[heratyian]

Any thoughts on including a simplified rubocop.yml config here? I find it's been helpful to have it enabled to encourage good style.

[bpurinton]

My concern here is that this template is geared towards beginners, and having them stopped in their tracks by formatting issues while trying to make commits in Phase 1 is not ideal (if the code runs fine as is). Formatting and linting seem more like a Phase 2 skill / aside, and not core content. It seems like that is already in place here: https://learn.firstdraft.com/lessons/390-style ? So perhaps just adding anything there (including a link to a gist with the copyable yml file?)

Nice lesson by the way!

[bpurinton]

Quick update here, since I'm looking through some old issues:

We have the rubocop.yml (and automated CI linting!) in our new Rails 8 projects, e.g.:

https://github.com/appdev-projects/helper-methods-part-1-and-2/blob/178ae2f77c9727f3247987d21e212b6d50cacc36/.rubocop.yml#L1-L8

and

https://github.com/appdev-projects/helper-methods-part-1-and-2/blob/178ae2f77c9727f3247987d21e212b6d50cacc36/.github/workflows/ci.yml#L53-L54

So, for "Phase 2" (Rails 8), we are doing this now.

We'll consider these changes in earlier "Phase 1" projects, which are all still on Rails 7, when we make the move to update all of those earlier projects.