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Assignment expression in conditional

Reports usages of assignment expressions in conditionals. Assignments in conditionals can make the code harder to read and are often a typo (= instead of ==).

Use the Report assignments in parentheses checkbox to highlight assignments in parentheses.

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

RubyAssignmentExpressionInConditionalInspection
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Ruby | Probable bugs

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Assignment expression in conditional inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Report assignments in parentheses

Not selected

Availability

By default bundled with

Qodana for Ruby 2024.1, RubyMine 2024.1,

Can be installed with plugin

Ruby, 241.SNAPSHOT

Last modified: 18 June 2024