Inherit reek config from a gem

[papa-cool]

In my company, we have several projects that use Code Climate metrics with rubocop, reek...

I'am creating a gem to share an up to date configuration with every projects.
Rubocop has a way to use the config file store into a gem : https://github.com/rubocop-hq/rubocop/blob/master/manual/configuration.md#inheriting-configuration-from-a-dependency-gem

Reek does not seem to have the same possibility. The use of a config file in the home/directory is not enough because it won't be kept up to date and won't work with Code Climate.

What do you think about this feature? Thank you for your help.

[troessner]

The bad news:

Unfortunately, this is not possible at the moment. Neither does Reek offer the option to use more than one configuration file nor does it allow you to specify a configuration file inside a gem.

The good news:

We are working on it! ;)
See #1411 if you're interested in the details. In short we'll:

2.) Add the feature to Reek that allows to include additional configuration files via include directive and reverse-merge whatever it finds in those files.

This is certainly one of the next features that we are going to tackle (we started to work on this in #1426 already).

This

Rubocop has a way to use the config file store into a gem : https://github.com/rubocop-hq/rubocop/blob/master/manual/configuration.md#inheriting-configuration-from-a-dependency-gem

certainly sounds like a nice follow-up. I have no ETA for both features though, so it might make sense for you to subscribe to the mentioned issue and pull request above.