Rubocop: Ignore all cops that are boilerplate from a new rails app

Question

When I run rubocop in my app directory, I get a long list of cops that stem from the default boiler-plate rails app which I just generated.

I don't want rubocop to look at these files since I'm not the author of the files and I don't want to mess around with them.

I see that I can add files to the Exclude: section with rubocop/config/default.yml but I'm not sure what configs and files I should be adding to properly ignore the built in files while not ignoring the files I create.

Answer 1

You can run rubocop --auto-gen-config and this will create a todo file for you which you can disable all the cops in. Then you can selectively turn the ones you want back on. Alternatively you can create a boiler plate rails app and run rubocop and those will be the files you need to add the excludes list.