rubocop on VScode not working.Error "rubocop is not executable"

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ShogoTGM picture ShogoTGM · Nov 19, 2018 · Viewed 24.7k times · Source

Recently I installed rubocop on vscode. However, it doesn't work.Error message is below.

rubocop is not excutable 
execute path is empty! please check ruby.rubocop.executePath

How should I fix it? I searched some articles, never solved...

cf. vscode-ruby-rubocop https://github.com/misogi/vscode-ruby-rubocop

Answer

codeinaire picture codeinaire · May 30, 2019

The accepted answer didn't work for me. However, I did find a comment by jdarnok on this GitHub issue that worked for me.

First, to get the user's path of the program file, I ran:

rbenv which rubocop

which gave me this result:

/Users/<your username>/.rbenv/versions/2.6.2/gemsets/Rails4.2_EnergyLink/bin/rubocop

Then I ran:

which rubocop

which gave me this result:

/Users/<your username>/.rbenv/shims/rubocop

SOLUTION

In the settings of VS Code under Ruby > Rubocop: Execute Path I pasted:

/Users/<your username>/.rbenv/shims/

Other potential solutions

This Stackoverflow post refers to a few other potential solutions, such as:

  • Replace bin in the PATH with wrappers
  • Refresh executable hooks
  • Update bundler
  • Update gems

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