diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index f04951542..d2624de93 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ group :development do
   gem 'capistrano-rails', '~> 1.3.1', require: false
   gem 'capistrano3-delayed-job', '~> 1.7.3'
   gem 'mdl', '~> 0.4.0', require: false
-  gem 'rubocop', '~> 0.49.1', require: false
+  gem 'rubocop', '~> 0.52.1', require: false
   gem 'rvm1-capistrano3', '~> 1.4.0', require: false
   gem 'scss_lint', '~> 0.54.0', require: false
   gem 'web-console', '~> 3.3.0'