Codenarc is a static code analysis tool for Groovy. It's been around for quite a while but one feature it lacked was the ability to see the rule violations right inside of IntelliJ.

Luckily one of my co-workers saw that Daniel Demus recently updated the IntelliJ plugin that was originally created by Cédric Champeau.

An example of a rule violation right inside IntelliJ:

You can get the pluginhere and check out the code or file a bug on theGithub project

One caveat is the plugin currently does not automatically import yourcodenarc.groovy|xml rule files - you have to enable rules manually in the inspection settings dialog. Though there is afeature request open to do just that.