Using coder.module to auto-format your code with drush

Last updated on

20 October 2018

Coder.module comes with a couple of drush plugins that let you repair things directly from the commandline - a great thing to try before committing new code!

First install coder and its required libraries onto your system
It's still not possible to run drush:coder commands stand-alone, so you should also install coder.module directly on your target site and enable it (this can be temporary).
```
cd path/to/your/site/folder
drush dl coder
drush en -y coder
```

It's a good start to RTFM.

drush help | grep coder

 coder-format          Re-format and rewrite code according Drupal coding standards.                             
 coder-review (coder,  Run code reviews

Before letting an automated tool lose on your code the first time, you may like to back up or (better) commit the current version of your code to source control before proceeding!
Run it and see what happens
```
drush coder-format sites/all/modules/custom/{$modulename}
```
... It should have just done it for you. Your code is magically better!
If you had source control, you can now check out what it did.
```
 cd ../all/modules/custom/{$modulename}
git diff
```
It's usually just whitespace, but to a visual review each time.