Cannot find specified ruleset

[jdewit]

Thanks for this plugin!

I'm getting the error

"M Cannot find specified rule-set "Gene". (PHPMD)"

Any ideas on how to resolve this? I can't find anything and am at a loss.

Let me know if you need any info.

[joonty]

Hi @jdewit, glad you like the plugin!

Do you have anything set in your g:phpqa_messdetector_ruleset global variable? This is either the name of an existing rule set or a path to an XML file with the rule set defined. It seems that PHP mess detector is trying to use a non existent rule set called "Gene", which is strange.

When you get the error again, run:

:echo g:phpqa_messdetector_ruleset

And see what gets spit out. Paste it here if you're unsure. If it isn't obvious we'll go into some more detailed debugging.

Thanks

[jdewit]

Thanks for the reply joonty.

I had dowloaded a ruleset for Symfony2 so I thought that may have been the problem.

in my gvimrc.local let g:phpqa_messdetector_ruleset = "/usr/share/php/PHP/CodeSniffer/Standards/Symfony2/ruleset.xml" let g:phpqa_codesniffer_args = "--standard=Symfony2"

But I also tried just setting it to the default Zend ruleset and I get the same "Gene" error. let g:phpqa_messdetector_ruleset = "/usr/share/php/PHP/CodeSniffer/Standards/Zend/ruleset.xml" let g:phpqa_codesniffer_args = "--standard=Zend"

echoing as you suggested outputs the ruleset path properly. For the Zend ruleset it shows: /usr/share/php/PHP/CodeSniffer/Standards/Zend/ruleset.xml

setting let g:phpqa_open_loc = 0 makes it less annoying although I think I'm missing out on some functionality with that.

phpmd and phpcs are both the latest versions.

Would love to get to the bottom of this!

[joonty]

Ok, plan b! What version of mess detector do you have?

phpmd --version

Thanks

[jdewit]

phpmd 1.4.1 by Manuel Pichler phpcs 1.4.3 (stable) by Squiz Pty Ltd.

Vim is compiled with perl

On Xubuntu xfce 4.8

[jdewit]

I tried deleting some rulesets and it's not just the "Gene" ruleset that it cannot find. After deleting this...

<rule ref="Generic.ControlStructures.InlineControlStructure"/>
<rule ref="Generic.Formatting.SpaceAfterCast"/>
<rule ref="Generic.Functions.CallTimePassByReference"/>
<rule ref="Generic.NamingConventions.UpperCaseConstantName"/>
<rule ref="Generic.PHP.LowerCaseConstant"/>
<rule ref="Squiz.Arrays.ArrayBracketSpacing"/>
<rule ref="Squiz.ControlStructures.ControlSignature"/>
<rule ref="Squiz.ControlStructures.ForEachLoopDeclaration"/>
<rule ref="Squiz.ControlStructures.ForLoopDeclaration"/>
<rule ref="Squiz.ControlStructures.LowercaseDeclaration"/>
<rule ref="Squiz.PHP.LowercasePHPFunctions"/>
<rule ref="Squiz.Scope.MemberVarScope"/>

It now errors out on the next ruleset cannot find specified ruleset "PEAR"

I'm going to try reinstalling phpmd again.

[joonty]

No need to reinstall PHPMD! I've worked it out - your issue is due to the fact that the ruleset you printed is actually a code sniffer ruleset, not a mess detector ruleset.

A mess detector ruleset looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<ruleset name="Example mess detection"
    xmlns="http://pmd.sf.net/ruleset/1.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://pmd.sf.net/ruleset/1.0.0 http://pmd.sf.net/ruleset_xml_schema.xsd"
    xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://pmd.sf.net/ruleset_xml_schema.xsd">
    <description>Example mess detection ruleset</description>

    <rule ref="rulesets/codesize.xml" />
    <!--<rule ref="rulesets/codesize.xml/NPathComplexity" />-->

    <rule ref="rulesets/design.xml/ExitExpression" />
    <rule ref="rulesets/design.xml/EvalExpression" />
    <rule ref="rulesets/design.xml/GotoStatement" />
    <rule ref="rulesets/design.xml/DepthOfInheritance" />
    <rule ref="rulesets/design.xml/CouplingBetweenObjects" />

    <rule ref="rulesets/naming.xml/LongVariable" />
    <rule ref="rulesets/naming.xml/ShortMethodName" />
    <rule ref="rulesets/naming.xml/ConstructorWithNameAsEnclosingClass" />
    <rule ref="rulesets/naming.xml/ConstantNamingConventions" />

    <rule ref="rulesets/unusedcode.xml/UnusedFormalParameter" />
    <!--<rule ref="rulesets/unusedcode.xml/UnusedLocalVariable" />-->
    <rule ref="rulesets/unusedcode.xml/UnusedPrivateField" />
    <rule ref="rulesets/unusedcode.xml/UnusedPrivateMethod" />
</ruleset>

I can reproduce the error by passing a code sniffer ruleset to mess detector. Easy enough to get them confused!

[jdewit]

That solves it! Thanks very much for your help.

[joonty]

No problem!