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We use EditorConfig to automatically apply certain styling
standards before files are saved locally. Most editors/IDEs will honor the .editorconfig
settings automatically by default. If your editor/IDE does not automatically support .editorconfig,
we suggest investigating to see if a plugin exists. For instance here is the
plugin for vim.
We strongly recommend installing Lefthook to automatically check for static analysis offenses before pushing your changes.
To install lefthook, run the following in your GitLab source directory:
# 1. Make sure to uninstall Overcommit first
overcommit --uninstall
# If using rbenv, at this point you may need to do: rbenv rehash
# 2. Install lefthook...
## With Homebrew (macOS)
brew install Arkweid/lefthook/lefthook
## Or with Go
go get github.com/Arkweid/lefthook
## Or with Rubygems
gem install lefthook
# 3. Install the Git hooks
lefthook install -fBefore you push your changes, Lefthook then automatically run Danger checks, and other checks for changed files. This saves you time as you don't have to wait for the same errors to be detected by CI/CD.
Lefthook relies on a pre-push hook to prevent commits that violate its ruleset.
To override this behavior, pass the environment variable LEFTHOOK=0. That is,
LEFTHOOK=0 git push.
You can also:
- Define local configuration.
- Skip checks per tag on the fly.
For example,
LEFTHOOK_EXCLUDE=frontend git push origin. - Run hooks manually.
For example,
lefthook run pre-push.
Our codebase style is defined and enforced by RuboCop.
You can check for any offenses locally with bundle exec rubocop --parallel.
On the CI, this is automatically checked by the static-analysis jobs.
For RuboCop rules that we have not taken a decision on yet, we follow the Ruby Style Guide, Rails Style Guide, and RSpec Style Guide as general guidelines to write idiomatic Ruby/Rails/RSpec, but reviewers/maintainers should be tolerant and not too pedantic about style.
Similarly, some RuboCop rules are currently disabled, and for those, reviewers/maintainers must not ask authors to use one style or the other, as both are accepted. This isn't an ideal situation since this leaves space for bike-shedding, and ideally we should enable all RuboCop rules to avoid style-related discussions/nitpicking/back-and-forth in reviews.
Additionally, we have a dedicated newlines style guide, as well as dedicated test-specific style guides and best practices.
Typically it is better for the linting rules to be enforced programmatically as it reduces the aforementioned bike-shedding.
To that end, we encourage creation of new RuboCop rules in the codebase.
When creating a new cop that could be applied to multiple applications, we encourage you to add it to our GitLab Styles gem.
See the dedicated Database Migrations Style Guide.
See the dedicated JS Style Guide.
See the dedicated SCSS Style Guide.
See the dedicated Go standards and style guidelines.
See the dedicated Guidelines for shell commands in the GitLab codebase.
See the dedicated Shell scripting standards and style guidelines.
We're following Ciro Santilli's Markdown Style Guide.
See the dedicated Documentation Style Guide.
See the dedicated Python Development Guidelines.
Code should be written in US English.