Merge pull request #9969 from chef/fail-early-with-cspell-syntax-error

Nicer error for misconfigured spellcheck in CI

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/.expeditor/verify_public.pipeline.yml b/.expeditor/verify_public.pipeline.yml
index b88e92a6bc..ae750546f0 100644
--- a/.expeditor/verify_public.pipeline.yml
+++ b/.expeditor/verify_public.pipeline.yml
@@ -574,8 +574,9 @@ steps:
 
 - label: "Spellcheck"
   commands:
+    - ruby -rjson -e "JSON.parse(File.read('cspell.json'))" 2>/dev/null || (echo "Failed to parse config file 'cspell.json', skipping spellcheck" && exit 1)
     - npm install -g cspell
-    - cspell "**/*" "*.md"
+    - cspell "**/*"
   expeditor:
     executor:
       docker:
diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index fde45aa46c..2949b31cb7 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -111,12 +111,12 @@ end
 
 namespace :spellcheck do
   task :run do
-    sh 'cspell "**/*" "*.md"'
+    sh 'cspell "**/*"'
   end
 
   desc "List the unique unrecognized words in the project."
   task :unknown_words do
-    sh 'cspell "**/*" "*.md" --wordsOnly --no-summary | sort | uniq'
+    sh 'cspell "**/*" --wordsOnly --no-summary | sort | uniq'
   end
 end