DOCtor-RST

Lint your documentation against given rules.

Available rules

You can find the available rules here.

Usage

You can use it as a Github Action like this:

# .github/workflows/lint.yaml
name: Lint

on:
    push:
    pull_request:

jobs:
    doctor-rst:
        name: DOCtor-RST
        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
        steps:
            - name: "Checkout code"
              uses: actions/checkout@v4

            - name: DOCtor-RST
              uses: docker://oskarstark/doctor-rst
              with:
                  args: --short --error-format=github

If your *.rst files are not located in root:

              uses: docker://oskarstark/doctor-rst
              with:
                  args: --short --error-format=github
+              env:
+                  DOCS_DIR: 'docs/'

Error Formatter

• detect (default) If running inside GithubActions CI environment, github is used, otherwise console.

• github Used to annotate your pull requests.

• console Used to generate a human readable output.

To force the usage of a specific formatter, use the --error-format option.

Use Caching to Speedup your GithubActions builds

        steps:
            - name: "Checkout"
              uses: actions/checkout@v4

+            - name: "Create cache dir"
+              run: mkdir .cache
+
+            - name: "Extract base branch name"
+              run: echo "##[set-output name=branch;]$(echo ${GITHUB_BASE_REF:=${GITHUB_REF##*/}})"
+              id: extract_base_branch
+
+            - name: "Cache DOCtor-RST"
+              uses: actions/cache@v2
+              with:
+                  path: .cache
+                  key: doctor-rst-${{ runner.os }}-${{ steps.extract_base_branch.outputs.branch }}
+                  restore-keys: |
+                      doctor-rst-${{ runner.os }}-
+                      doctor-rst-   
+
            - name: "Run DOCtor-RST"
              uses: docker://oskarstark/doctor-rst
              with:
-                 args: --short --error-format=github
+                 args: --short --error-format=github --cache-file=/github/workspace/.cache/doctor-rst.cache

Docker

A Docker-Image is built automatically and located here: https://cloud.docker.com/u/oskarstark/repository/docker/oskarstark/doctor-rst

You can run it in any given directory like this:

docker run --rm -it -e DOCS_DIR='/docs' -v ${PWD}:/docs oskarstark/doctor-rst:latest

Local usage

bin/doctor-rst analyze dummy --group=@Symfony

or

bin/doctor-rst analyze dummy --group=@Sonata

Todos

• Allow to register custom Rules
• Move logic from Command to Services