nektos/act

Marlon Brandão de Sousa

@marlon-sousa

The -b worked lke a grasp, thanks.

Bryan Kok

@Transfusion

$ act 
[Node.js CI/test] 🧪  Matrix: map[node-version:12.x]
[Node.js CI/test] 🚀  Start image=node:12.6-buster-slim
panic: runtime error: index out of range [1] with length 0

goroutine 18 [running]:
github.com/nektos/act/pkg/runner.newRemoteAction(0x0, 0x0, 0x0)
        /home/runner/work/act/act/pkg/runner/step_context.go:382 +0x1a9

i'm getting this error, my yml file is like above

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

could you post the yaml workflow here

Bryan Kok

@Transfusion

name: Node.js CI

on:
  push:
    branches: [master]
  pull_request:
    branches: [master]

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    strategy:
      matrix:
        node-version: [12.x]

    steps:
      - working-directory: ./test
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Use Node.js ${{ matrix.node-version }}
        uses: actions/setup-node@v1
        with:
          node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
      - run: npm ci
      - run: npm test

my actual npm project, package.json included is in the test subdir from the root

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

Object is missing property run required by property working-directory.
does it work properly on GitHub actions?

Bryan Kok

@Transfusion

@CatTheHacker I don't think it does :laughing: but you pointed me in the right direction, I copied it from one of the templates generated by GH actions https://github.community/t/github-actions-working-directory-incorrectly-documented-unexpected-value-working-directory/16076/8

(instead of specifying working-directory under the steps, i did this and it worked)

defaults:
  run:
    working-directory: test

btw, what extension are you using to validate the yaml file?? it looks so handy!

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

default formatter I have set is redhat.vscode-yaml
but I also have docsmsft.docs-yaml and PascalReitermann93.vscode-yaml-sort

    "[yaml]": {
        "editor.defaultFormatter": "redhat.vscode-yaml",
        "editor.insertSpaces": true,
        "editor.tabSize": 2,
        "editor.quickSuggestions": {
            "other": true,
            "comments": false,
            "strings": true
        },
        "editor.autoIndent": "full"
    },

Karol

@karolswdev

Hey guys. Has anybody had troubles with matrix variables with act? I keep getting the | /github/workflow/10: line 1: ${{matrix.path}}: bad substitution error.

I wonder if this approach is supported at all at the moment?

Karol

@karolswdev

This is because I was using working-directory: ${{matrix.path}}. I did a workaround to do cd $${matrix.path}} && run-whatever-I-want

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

post full workflow

Christophe Lecointe

@christophelec

Hello everyone, I'm having trouble making act work on MacOS. I installed the latest version from brew, and tried to run a few command but they all come back blank, even listing workflows. I have a docker daemon running via Minikube. Any idea what could be the issue here ? I did not find error logs to provide even with -v so far

Christophe Lecointe

@christophelec

Ok, I have things happening by triggering the pull_request event, but I'm not sure why my workflows are not listed when doing a -l ?

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

@christophelec act by default works on workflows with push event

see:
https://github.com/nektos/act#commands
--detect-event Use first event type from workflow as event that triggered the workflow
nektos/act#484

Andrew Hall

@andrewhall-premier

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H i - I'm trying to run act with the ubuntu-18.04 environment, but it's ignoring the parameter and running within buster-slim. Any insight into the problem?

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

@andrewhall-premier check if workflow is using ubuntu-18.04

Andrew Hall

@andrewhall-premier

It uses ubuntu-latest, do I have to peg it to 18.04?

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

or use -P ubuntu-latest=[...]

Andrew Hall

@andrewhall-premier

makes sense, thanks

That worked! Thanks for such a quick response! You've saved me hours!

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

:thumbsup:

Andrew Hall

@andrewhall-premier

IMO, it would be nice to receive a warning message if the specified override doesn't match run value in the workflows file. For a NOOB it was non-obvious

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

I'll see what I can do about it

Andrew Hall

@andrewhall-premier

:thumbsup:

Sven Assmann

@sassman

I wonder, if there was already someone finding or doing a web ui?

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

I'm not aware but that is absolutely worst idea

Sven Assmann

@sassman

How would you keep track of build logs etc? I mean if using act as a build pipeline runner..

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

I read them?

Not sure what you mean

thomascorthals

@thomascorthals

@sassman If you run the workflow on GitHub, you get a nice web UI with access to the build logs.

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

The goal of act is to make sure workflow works, once it works I just push it github and have GH Actions do stuff

from GH Actions you have separation per jobs, workflows, etc.

Sven Assmann

@sassman

Maybe my use case in mind is a bit different from yours. I'm talking about not using github for execution but an own ci - server. Like for example jenkins gives the UI and the runner infrastructure..

sure thing.. not suggesting that this is the act use case at all..

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

If you need to run stuff on demand there is https://agola.io/

Sven Assmann

@sassman

I read it but I think that is something different

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

that's a CI, like Jenkins

Sven Assmann

@sassman

a headless ci

Or am I missing something?

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

I'm quite confused on what are you trying to achieve

Sven Assmann

@sassman

Let me try it differently, let's say I have a github actions pipeline in my repo, but I do not use github, then that's pretty useless, right?

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