Proposal: change Style/Alias to prefer_alias_method (or disable)

[timriley]

Hi @searls and fellow standardrb-ers,

I was porting a gem to standardrb today when I noticed it auto-corrected an alias_method to alias.

I note that the following rules are currently in place for Style/Alias:

Style/Alias:
  Enabled: true
  EnforcedStyle: prefer_alias

Looking at the git blame for the base.yml file, it seems like this rule was never specifically tweaked, it was just brought in with the wholesale import of the original RuboCop defaults.

I would like to propose that we (a) change the enforced style to prefer_alias_method, or (b) disable the rule entirely.

As I was about to write my reasoning for this proposal, I actually found this recently opened issue on the Ruby Style Guide that sums up my thinking very well, so I'll point you to this first: rubocop/ruby-style-guide#821

Happy to discuss further, but I thought it'd be simplest just to point to that issue and gauge your feelings first.

Cheers!

[searls]

I'm willing to buy it. (Having used either method less than a dozen times in 15 years makes me easily swayed). Send a PR?

[timriley]

Thanks @searls! Will do 👍