Is it possible to lint code comments and/or docblocks?

[jgornick]

As the title says :)

I suppose one workaround for linting docblocks is linting any generated documentation from the docblocks.

Thank you!

[wooorm]

nope, there’s not really support for that. Although, you can pass --text on the CLI to see the files you give it as plain text.
Alternatively, you could do the inverse based on what linter exists for your code, and integrate that to look for code comments, and run the alex API on those comments!

[boomshadow]

I use a combination of fd (a find replacement) and what @wooorm suggested above to get Alex as a linter in my projects' CI/CD pipeline. I find all ruby files, then pass to Alex to be linted as text. Then I do another search for markdown files and lint them like normal:

fd -e rb -x alex --text {}
fd -e md -x alex {}