Use absolute path to support Cop Exclude param

[blelump]

When Exclude param is used for a cop, ie:

Metrics/BlockLength:
  Exclude:
    - 'spec/**/*.rb'

Rubocop internally checks these strings using the match_pattern? method and since the pattern arg is given as project root + pattern, it never works for relative paths. It would, however, work for a path defined as regexp, ie:

Metrics/BlockLength:
  Exclude:
    - !ruby/regexp /spec\/.*\/.*_spec.rb$/

however I think it's convenient to support string paths in order to allow '**' pattern as well.

[madslundholmdk]

@blelump what is the status of this?

[blelump]

@madslundholmdk , what do you mean?

[madslundholmdk]

@blelump why isn't this merged yet?

[blelump]

@madslundholmdk , this is just my PR for a particular problem :-) . Whether the PR will be merged or not eventually , depends on the repo owner (which I am not).

[madslundholmdk]

@m4i can this be merged? I just tested it, and it fix my issue #38

[tiagoefmoraes]

@m4i this change worked for me too. Do you need any help to merge this?

For now I'm using specific_install to use this fix: gem specific_install -l [email protected]:blelump/rubocop-git.git -r 79a6579b7ebbd82890c32f536fe78472fe816071

[tfwright]

I just switched my config to use the regex from the OP...not sure what downsides might be though 🤷‍♂