diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5700a5c81d..d1a1edf06f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,5 @@
 /**/.DS_Store
 /coverage
+
+# Local cache of Rubocop remote config
+.rubocop-*
diff --git a/.rubocop.yml b/.rubocop.yml
index 989edc3011..104b0677c1 100644
--- a/.rubocop.yml
+++ b/.rubocop.yml
@@ -7,483 +7,6 @@
 # The linter file that doesn't lead junior developers to bad habits.
 # https://github.com/makersacademy/scaffolint
 #
-# Problems (eg obselete names) may be due to an incompatible version.
-# Check your Rubocop version with `rubocop -v` in the command line.
-#
-# Tested with Rubocop version 0.71.0
-#
-# Introduction
-# ============
-#
-# Our order of priorities:
-#
-#   1. Conforming your code to the styleguide.
-#   2. The styleguide being thorough and complete.
-#
-# This file relaxes Rubocop a bit so you can learn about code quality rather
-# than just following the rules. Some guidelines can result in worse code if you
-# don't know why they are there. For instance, if a line is too long, you might
-# be tempted to simply abbreviate your variable names - making your code harder
-# to read.
-#
-# We prioritize rules that offer good, easily incorporated feedback on improving
-# your code, without being overwhelming or requiring experienced judgement.
-#
-# As you become a better developer you will remove or amend this file according
-# to what you think good code should look like.
-#
-# Physical Code Size
-# ==================
-#
-# Sometimes beginner devs interpret line or block length restrictions as a
-# reason to make things so abbreviated as to be unreadable. These messages are
-# designed to make you write more readable code - not less.
-#
-# We want to encourage testing, but it can be verbose in the early stages.
-# So we'll give you a break. As you learn, try removing the next two sections.
-
-Metrics/LineLength:
-  Exclude:
-    - 'spec/**/*'
-    - 'test/**/*'
-  Max: 100
-
-Metrics/BlockLength:
-  Exclude:
-    - 'spec/**/*'
-    - 'test/**/*'
-
-# Code Style
-# ==========
-#
-# Many devs, upon running a linter for the first time, see a big wall of errors
-# of dubious necessity and put it in the 'way too much trouble' box. Beginners
-# usually have far more pressing concerns than which sort of quotes they use.
-#
-# This makes Rubocop have a bigger 'payoff' for beginners without so much of
-# the punishment. We focus our linting on things that significantly impact
-# readability, expressiveness, or teach a dev new things. For example:
-#
-#   * Indentation & whitespace (inconsistency, really gross stuff like `a=1`)
-#   * Easy wins in expressiveness (e.g. guard clauses — nice opportunity to
-#     inject concretes)
-#   * Egregious non-idiomatic ruby like `def getFilename`
-
-IndentationConsistency:
-  Enabled: true
-IndentationWidth:
-  Enabled: true
-AccessorMethodName:
-  Enabled: true
-BlockEndNewline:
-  Enabled: true
-DefWithParentheses:
-  Enabled: true
-EmptyLineBetweenDefs:
-  Enabled: true
-EmptyLines:
-  Enabled: true
-ExtraSpacing:
-  Enabled: true
-GuardClause:
-  Enabled: true
-IdenticalConditionalBranches:
-  Enabled: true
-InverseMethods:
-  Enabled: true
-LeadingCommentSpace:
-  Enabled: true
-NegatedIf:
-  Enabled: true
-NegatedWhile:
-  Enabled: true
-NilComparison:
-  Enabled: true
-Not:
-  Enabled: true
-NumericLiterals:
-  Enabled: true
-NumericPredicate:
-  Enabled: true
-OneLineConditional:
-  Enabled: true
-RedundantParentheses:
-  Enabled: true
-RedundantSelf:
-  Enabled: true
-Style/SafeNavigation:
-  Enabled: true
-SelfAssignment:
-  Enabled: true
-SpaceAfterColon:
-  Enabled: true
-SpaceAfterComma:
-  Enabled: true
-SpaceAfterMethodName:
-  Enabled: true
-SpaceAfterNot:
-  Enabled: true
-SpaceAfterSemicolon:
-  Enabled: true
-SpaceAroundBlockParameters:
-  Enabled: true
-SpaceAroundEqualsInParameterDefault:
-  Enabled: true
-SpaceAroundKeyword:
-  Enabled: true
-SpaceAroundOperators:
-  Enabled: true
-SpaceBeforeBlockBraces:
-  Enabled: true
-SpaceBeforeComma:
-  Enabled: true
-SpaceBeforeComment:
-  Enabled: true
-SpaceBeforeFirstArg:
-  Enabled: true
-SpaceBeforeSemicolon:
-  Enabled: true
-SpaceInLambdaLiteral:
-  Enabled: true
-SpaceInsideArrayPercentLiteral:
-  Enabled: true
-SpaceInsideBlockBraces:
-  Enabled: true
-SpaceInsideReferenceBrackets:
-  Enabled: true
-SpaceInsideArrayLiteralBrackets:
-  Enabled: true
-SpaceInsideHashLiteralBraces:
-  Enabled: true
-SpaceInsideParens:
-  Enabled: true
-SpaceInsidePercentLiteralDelimiters:
-  Enabled: true
-SpaceInsideRangeLiteral:
-  Enabled: true
-SpaceInsideStringInterpolation:
-  Enabled: true
-SymbolLiteral:
-  Enabled: true
-TrailingBlankLines:
-  Enabled: true
-TrivialAccessors:
-  Enabled: true
-
-# Rubocop doesn't make disabling all cops in a given group easy, so we list...
-AccessModifierIndentation:
-  Enabled: false
-Alias:
-  Enabled: false
-AlignArray:
-  Enabled: false
-AlignHash:
-  Enabled: false
-AlignParameters:
-  Enabled: false
-AndOr:
-  Enabled: false
-ArrayJoin:
-  Enabled: false
-AsciiComments:
-  Enabled: false
-AsciiIdentifiers:
-  Enabled: false
-Attr:
-  Enabled: false
-AutoResourceCleanup:
-  Enabled: false
-BarePercentLiterals:
-  Enabled: false
-BeginBlock:
-  Enabled: false
-BlockComments:
-  Enabled: false
-BlockDelimiters:
-  Enabled: false
-BracesAroundHashParameters:
-  Enabled: false
-CaseEquality:
-  Enabled: false
-CaseIndentation:
-  Enabled: false
-CharacterLiteral:
-  Enabled: false
-ClassAndModuleChildren:
-  Enabled: false
-ClassCheck:
-  Enabled: false
-ClassMethods:
-  Enabled: false
-ClassVars:
-  Enabled: false
-ClosingParenthesisIndentation:
-  Enabled: false
-CollectionMethods:
-  Enabled: false
-ColonMethodCall:
-  Enabled: false
-CommandLiteral:
-  Enabled: false
-CommentAnnotation:
-  Enabled: false
-CommentIndentation:
-  Enabled: false
-ConditionalAssignment:
-  Enabled: false
-Copyright:
-  Enabled: false
-Documentation:
-  Enabled: false
-DocumentationMethod:
-  Enabled: false
-DotPosition:
-  Enabled: false
-DoubleNegation:
-  Enabled: false
-EachForSimpleLoop:
-  Enabled: false
-EachWithObject:
-  Enabled: false
-ElseAlignment:
-  Enabled: false
-EmptyCaseCondition:
-  Enabled: false
-EmptyElse:
-  Enabled: false
-EmptyLineAfterMagicComment:
-  Enabled: false
-EmptyLinesAroundAccessModifier:
-  Enabled: false
-EmptyLinesAroundBeginBody:
-  Enabled: false
-EmptyLinesAroundBlockBody:
-  Enabled: false
-EmptyLinesAroundClassBody:
-  Enabled: false
-EmptyLinesAroundExceptionHandlingKeywords:
-  Enabled: false
-EmptyLinesAroundMethodBody:
-  Enabled: false
-EmptyLinesAroundModuleBody:
-  Enabled: false
-EmptyLiteral:
-  Enabled: false
-EmptyMethod:
-  Enabled: false
-Encoding:
-  Enabled: false
-EndBlock:
-  Enabled: false
-EndOfLine:
-  Enabled: false
-EvenOdd:
-  Enabled: false
-FirstArrayElementLineBreak:
-  Enabled: false
-FirstHashElementLineBreak:
-  Enabled: false
-FirstMethodArgumentLineBreak:
-  Enabled: false
-FirstMethodParameterLineBreak:
-  Enabled: false
-Layout/IndentFirstArgument:
-  Enabled: false
-FlipFlop:
-  Enabled: false
-For:
-  Enabled: false
-FormatString:
-  Enabled: false
-FrozenStringLiteralComment:
-  Enabled: false
-GlobalVars:
-  Enabled: false
-HashSyntax:
-  Enabled: false
-IfInsideElse:
-  Enabled: false
-IfUnlessModifier:
-  Enabled: false
-IfUnlessModifierOfIfUnless:
-  Enabled: false
-IfWithSemicolon:
-  Enabled: false
-ImplicitRuntimeError:
-  Enabled: false
-IndentFirstArrayElement:
-  Enabled: false
-IndentAssignment:
-  Enabled: false
-IndentFirstHashElement:
-  Enabled: false
-IndentHeredoc:
-  Enabled: false
-InfiniteLoop:
-  Enabled: false
-InitialIndentation:
-  Enabled: false
-InlineComment:
-  Enabled: false
-Lambda:
-  Enabled: false
-LambdaCall:
-  Enabled: false
-LineEndConcatenation:
-  Enabled: false
-MethodCallWithArgsParentheses:
-  Enabled: false
-MethodCallWithoutArgsParentheses:
-  Enabled: false
-MethodCalledOnDoEndBlock:
-  Enabled: false
-MethodDefParentheses:
-  Enabled: false
-MethodMissingSuper:
-  Enabled: false
-MissingRespondToMissing:
-  Enabled: false
-MissingElse:
-  Enabled: false
-MixinGrouping:
-  Enabled: false
-ModuleFunction:
-  Enabled: false
-MultilineArrayBraceLayout:
-  Enabled: false
-MultilineAssignmentLayout:
-  Enabled: false
-MultilineBlockChain:
-  Enabled: false
-MultilineBlockLayout:
-  Enabled: false
-MultilineHashBraceLayout:
-  Enabled: false
-MultilineIfModifier:
-  Enabled: false
-MultilineIfThen:
-  Enabled: false
-MultilineMemoization:
-  Enabled: false
-MultilineMethodCallBraceLayout:
-  Enabled: false
-MultilineMethodCallIndentation:
-  Enabled: false
-MultilineMethodDefinitionBraceLayout:
-  Enabled: false
-MultilineOperationIndentation:
-  Enabled: false
-MultilineTernaryOperator:
-  Enabled: false
-MutableConstant:
-  Enabled: false
-NestedModifier:
-  Enabled: false
-NestedParenthesizedCalls:
-  Enabled: false
-NestedTernaryOperator:
-  Enabled: false
-Next:
-  Enabled: false
-NonNilCheck:
-  Enabled: false
-NumericLiteralPrefix:
-  Enabled: false
-BinaryOperatorParameterName:
-  Enabled: false
-OptionHash:
-  Enabled: false
-OptionalArguments:
-  Enabled: false
-ParallelAssignment:
-  Enabled: false
-ParenthesesAroundCondition:
-  Enabled: false
-PercentLiteralDelimiters:
-  Enabled: false
-PercentQLiterals:
-  Enabled: false
-PerlBackrefs:
-  Enabled: false
-PreferredHashMethods:
-  Enabled: false
-Proc:
-  Enabled: false
-RaiseArgs:
-  Enabled: false
-RedundantBegin:
-  Enabled: false
-RedundantException:
-  Enabled: false
-RedundantFreeze:
-  Enabled: false
-RedundantReturn:
-  Enabled: false
-RegexpLiteral:
-  Enabled: false
-RescueEnsureAlignment:
-  Enabled: false
-RescueModifier:
-  Enabled: false
-Semicolon:
-  Enabled: false
-Send:
-  Enabled: false
-SignalException:
-  Enabled: false
-SingleLineBlockParams:
-  Enabled: false
-SingleLineMethods:
-  Enabled: false
-SpecialGlobalVars:
-  Enabled: false
-StabbyLambdaParentheses:
-  Enabled: false
-StringLiterals:
-  Enabled: false
-StringLiteralsInInterpolation:
-  Enabled: false
-StringMethods:
-  Enabled: false
-StructInheritance:
-  Enabled: false
-SymbolArray:
-  Enabled: false
-SymbolProc:
-  Enabled: false
-Tab:
-  Enabled: false
-TernaryParentheses:
-  Enabled: false
-TrailingCommaInArguments:
-  Enabled: false
-TrailingCommaInArrayLiteral:
-  Enabled: false
-TrailingCommaInHashLiteral:
-  Enabled: false
-TrailingUnderscoreVariable:
-  Enabled: false
-TrailingWhitespace:
-  Enabled: false
-UnlessElse:
-  Enabled: false
-UnneededCapitalW:
-  Enabled: false
-UnneededInterpolation:
-  Enabled: false
-UnneededPercentQ:
-  Enabled: false
-VariableInterpolation:
-  Enabled: false
-VariableNumber:
-  Enabled: false
-WhenThen:
-  Enabled: false
-WhileUntilDo:
-  Enabled: false
-WhileUntilModifier:
-  Enabled: false
-WordArray:
-  Enabled: false
-ZeroLengthPredicate:
-  Enabled: false
+# Configure Rubocop to use the config file in the Scaffolint GitHub repo
+inherit_from:
+  - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/makersacademy/scaffolint/v1.1.0/.rubocop.yml
diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 457f41207a..cb72219cb1 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ source 'https://rubygems.org'
 
 group :test do
   gem 'rspec'
-  gem 'rubocop', '0.71.0'
+  gem 'rubocop', '0.79.0'
   gem 'simplecov', require: false
   gem 'simplecov-console', require: false
 end
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index dcee570b03..899f09c4b9 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ GEM
     ast (2.4.0)
     diff-lcs (1.3)
     docile (1.3.2)
-    jaro_winkler (1.5.3)
+    jaro_winkler (1.5.4)
     json (2.2.0)
-    parallel (1.18.0)
-    parser (2.6.5.0)
+    parallel (1.19.1)
+    parser (2.7.0.4)
       ast (~> 2.4.0)
     rainbow (3.0.0)
     rspec (3.9.0)
@@ -24,10 +24,10 @@ GEM
       diff-lcs (>= 1.2.0, < 2.0)
       rspec-support (~> 3.9.0)
     rspec-support (3.9.0)
-    rubocop (0.71.0)
+    rubocop (0.79.0)
       jaro_winkler (~> 1.5.1)
       parallel (~> 1.10)
-      parser (>= 2.6)
+      parser (>= 2.7.0.1)
       rainbow (>= 2.2.2, < 4.0)
       ruby-progressbar (~> 1.7)
       unicode-display_width (>= 1.4.0, < 1.7)
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ PLATFORMS
 
 DEPENDENCIES
   rspec
-  rubocop (= 0.71.0)
+  rubocop (= 0.79.0)
   simplecov
   simplecov-console