jshirley · May 18, 2016 21:00 · May 18, 2016 · May 18, 2016 · May 18, 2016
diff --git a/broken.rb b/broken.rb
@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ def foo
       puts "For really real, it isn't"
       end
   end
-end
+end
diff --git a/.rubocop-todo.yml b/.rubocop-todo.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Lint/EndAlignment:
+  Exclude:
+    - 'rel/path/broken.rb'
diff --git a/.rubocop.yml b/.rubocop.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+inherit_from:
+  - .rubocop-todo.yml
+
+Documentation:
+  Enabled: false
diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+source 'https://rubygems.org'
+
+gem 'rubocop'
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+The rubocop [documentation](https://github.com/bbatsov/rubocop/blame/master/README.md#L425) states "Files and directories are specified relative to the .rubocop.yml file.", however that seems to be untrue based on from where you run rubocop from! Oh no!
+
+To demonstrate the breakage, clone this gist and move the broken.rb to a subdirectory:
+```
+mkdir -p rel/path
+mv broken.rb rel/path
+```
+
+From there, you can confirm that relative paths work from the same directory as .rubocop.yml:
+
+```
+bundle
+bundle exec rubocop rel/path/broken.rb
+```
+
+All good! `1 files inspected, no offenses detected` But if I rely on the behavior for rubocop to go upwards to find the `.rubocop.yml` (which it does) it loses the `Excludes` configuration.
+
+```
+bundle exec rubocop broken.rb
+Inspecting 1 file
+W
+
+Offenses:
+
+broken.rb:8:7: W: end at 8, 6 is not aligned with if at 4, 4.
+      end
+      ^^^
+
+1 file inspected, 1 offense detected
+```
diff --git a/broken.rb b/broken.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+class Broken
+  def foo
+    # I'm intentionally broken
+    if 1 == 0
+      puts "This isn't real code."
+    else
+      puts "For really real, it isn't"
+      end
+  end
+end