Rubocop loading issue on VScode

If you are facing issue to load rubocop plugin to your VS code try the following steps to fix it.

The error message will be something like:

rubocop on VScode not working.Error “rubocop is not executable”

  1. First you have to ensure that you have installed ruby in your machine. if you are using docker containers for your project, ruby is installed inside the containers and VS Code cannot find it.
  2. Next install rubocop gem in your machine
                 $ gem install rubocop

3. Next take 

  VS Code -> Settings -> search for 'rubocop' in Ruby > Rubocop: Execute Path

add the output of the following command:

        $ which rubocop

4. Reload the rubocop plugin from VS Code.

Now VS Code will get to execute rubocop.

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