Scanning Ruby on Rails Projects with SonarQube

Question

I want to check my Ruby on Rails app with sonarqube. I've added the Web plugin which should work with Ruby but I get the following error during sonarqube exectution:

app/controllers/course_statistics_controller.rb
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
at org.sonar.plugins.web.checks.sonar.UnsupportedTagsInHtml5Check.isUnsupportedTag(UnsupportedTagsInHtml5Check.java:77) ~[na:na]
at org.sonar.plugins.web.checks.sonar.UnsupportedTagsInHtml5Check.startElement(UnsupportedTagsInHtml5Check.java:71) ~[na:na]
at org.sonar.plugins.web.visitor.HtmlAstScanner.scanElementTag(HtmlAstScanner.java:117) ~[na:na]
at org.sonar.plugins.web.visitor.HtmlAstScanner.scanElement(HtmlAstScanner.java:96) ~[na:na]
at org.sonar.plugins.web.visitor.HtmlAstScanner.scan(HtmlAstScanner.java:80) ~[na:na]
at org.sonar.plugins.web.visitor.HtmlAstScanner.scan(HtmlAstScanner.java:59) ~[na:na]
at org.sonar.plugins.web.core.WebSensor.analyse(WebSensor.java:93) ~[na:na]
at org.sonar.batch.phases.SensorsExecutor.executeSensor(SensorsExecutor.java:59) [sonar-batch-maven-compat-5.1.jar:na]
at org.sonar.batch.phases.SensorsExecutor.execute(SensorsExecutor.java:51) [sonar-batch-maven-compat-5.1.jar:na]
at org.sonar.batch.phases.DatabaseModePhaseExecutor.execute(DatabaseModePhaseExecutor.java:120) [sonar-batch-maven-compat-5.1.jar:na]
at org.sonar.batch.scan.ModuleScanContainer.doAfterStart(ModuleScanContainer.java:264) [sonar-batch-maven-compat-5.1.jar:na]
at org.sonar.api.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:92) [sonar-batch-maven-compat-5.1.jar:na]
at org.sonar.api.platform.ComponentContainer.execute(ComponentContainer.java:77) [sonar-batch-maven-compat-5.1.jar:na]
at org.sonar.batch.scan.ProjectScanContainer.scan(ProjectScanContainer.java:235) [sonar-batch-maven-compat-5.1.jar:na]
at org.sonar.batch.scan.ProjectScanContainer.scanRecursively(ProjectScanContainer.java:230) [sonar-batch-maven-compat-5.1.jar:na]
at org.sonar.batch.scan.ProjectScanContainer.doAfterStart(ProjectScanContainer.java:220) [sonar-batch-maven-compat-5.1.jar:na]
at org.sonar.api.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:92) [sonar-batch-maven-compat-5.1.jar:na]
at org.sonar.api.platform.ComponentContainer.execute(ComponentContainer.java:77) [sonar-batch-maven-compat-5.1.jar:na]
at org.sonar.batch.scan.ScanTask.scan(ScanTask.java:57) [sonar-batch-maven-compat-5.1.jar:na]
at org.sonar.batch.scan.ScanTask.execute(ScanTask.java:45) [sonar-batch-maven-compat-5.1.jar:na]
at org.sonar.batch.bootstrap.TaskContainer.doAfterStart(TaskContainer.java:135) [sonar-batch-maven-compat-5.1.jar:na]
at org.sonar.api.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:92) [sonar-batch-maven-compat-5.1.jar:na]
at org.sonar.api.platform.ComponentContainer.execute(ComponentContainer.java:77) [sonar-batch-maven-compat-5.1.jar:na]
at org.sonar.batch.bootstrap.GlobalContainer.executeTask(GlobalContainer.java:158) [sonar-batch-maven-compat-5.1.jar:na]
at org.sonar.batch.bootstrapper.Batch.executeTask(Batch.java:95) [sonar-batch-maven-compat-5.1.jar:na]
at org.sonar.batch.bootstrapper.Batch.execute(Batch.java:67) [sonar-batch-maven-compat-5.1.jar:na]
at org.sonar.runner.batch.IsolatedLauncher.execute(IsolatedLauncher.java:48) [sonar-runner-batch1741912612400004619.jar:na]
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) ~[na:1.7.0_65]
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) ~[na:1.7.0_65]
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) ~[na:1.7.0_65]
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) ~[na:1.7.0_65]
at org.sonar.runner.impl.BatchLauncher$1.delegateExecution(BatchLauncher.java:87) [sonar-runner-dist-2.4.jar:na]
at org.sonar.runner.impl.BatchLauncher$1.run(BatchLauncher.java:75) [sonar-runner-dist-2.4.jar:na]
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) [na:1.7.0_65]
at org.sonar.runner.impl.BatchLauncher.doExecute(BatchLauncher.java:69) [sonar-runner-dist-2.4.jar:na]
at org.sonar.runner.impl.BatchLauncher.execute(BatchLauncher.java:50) [sonar-runner-dist-2.4.jar:na]
at org.sonar.runner.api.EmbeddedRunner.doExecute(EmbeddedRunner.java:102) [sonar-runner-dist-2.4.jar:na]
at org.sonar.runner.api.Runner.execute(Runner.java:100) [sonar-runner-dist-2.4.jar:na]
at org.sonar.runner.Main.executeTask(Main.java:70) [sonar-runner-dist-2.4.jar:na]
at org.sonar.runner.Main.execute(Main.java:59) [sonar-runner-dist-2.4.jar:na]
at org.sonar.runner.Main.main(Main.java:53) [sonar-runner-dist-2.4.jar:na]

What is wrong?

Answer 1

SonarQube has dropped support for Ruby.

If you want to supply code styles check for your application, you take a look into following links:

Ruby Style Guide.

RuboCop - Ruby static code analyzer. Out of the box it will enforce many of the guidelines outlined in the community rails-style-guide. Very configurable and well maintained gem.

Guard-ruboCop - allows you to automatically check Ruby code style with RuboCop when files are modified.

Rails best practices - a code metric tool to check the quality of rails cod. Well maintained.

Simplecov - code coverage analysis tool for Ruby (tests).

Reek - is a tool that examines Ruby classes, modules and methods and reports any Code Smells it finds.

Answer 2

Looks like SonarQube 7.4 now has support for Ruby!

https://www.sonarqube.org/sonarqube-7-4/