/lintron

An experiment in automated linting of pull requests.

Primary LanguageCoffeeScriptMIT LicenseMIT

Lintron

Automatically lints Github Pull Requests and posts lints as review comments.

Example Comment

Setup

bundle install

Lintron uses a GitHub machine user to make the comments. You just set up a separate user for it and set up a new developer application for that user. Then, you will need a .env file containing to the following keys:

GITHUB_USERNAME=…from the github user
GITHUB_TOKEN=…from the github user
GITHUB_WEBHOOK_SECRET=…make up a secret shared between lintron and github
GITHUB_APP_ID=…the developer application's id
GITHUB_APP_SECRET=…the developer application's secret

Setting Up Webhooks

Lintron uses webhooks to know when a PR has been created or updated. You'll need to set up the webhook on each repo you want Lintron to monitor.

Webhooks

The webhook url will be https://yourlintronhost/github_webhooks. The secret will be the one you set in your .env file. Lintron needs to be on a publicly reachable host to receive webhooks.

Local CLI

gem install lintron

You must create a .linty_rc file like:

{
  "base_branch": "origin/master",
  "base_url": "URL_OF_YOUR_LINTRON"
}

Then you can run lintron or lintron --watch