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I've just started exploring Github actions however I've found myself placing a command in multiple places.
I have a PHP project where the composer.json is not in the root, my structure looks like:
my-project: readme.md app: composer.json Obviously there is more to it and there is a reason why, but my composer.json sits in a subdirectory called 'app'. As a result in my workflow, I have to cd into that folder every time to run a command:
name: CI on: [push] jobs: phpunit: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v1 - name: Setup Symfony run: | cd app cp .env.dev .env - name: Install Composer Dependencies run: | cd app composer install --prefer-dist - name: Run Tests run: | cd app php bin/phpunit How can I remove the cd app in every stage?
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GitHub Actions uses YAML syntax to define the workflow. Each workflow is stored as a separate YAML file in your code repository, in a directory named . github/workflows .
To run jobs sequentially, you can define dependencies on other jobs using the jobs. <job_id>. needs keyword. Each job runs in a runner environment specified by runs-on .
You can configure your workflows to run when specific activity on GitHub happens, at a scheduled time, or when an event outside of GitHub occurs.
In computing, the working directory of a process is a directory of a hierarchical file system, if any, dynamically associated with each process. It is sometimes called the current working directory (CWD), e.g. the BSD getcwd function, or just current directory.
Update: It's now possible to set a working-directory default for a job. See this answer.
There is an option to set a working-directory on a step, but not for multiple steps or a whole job. I'm fairly sure this option only works for script steps, not action steps with uses.
https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#jobsjob_idstepsrun
Using working-directory, your workflow would look like this. It's still quite verbose but maybe a bit cleaner.
name: CI on: [push] jobs: phpunit: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v1 - name: Setup Symfony working-directory: ./app run: cp .env.dev .env - name: Install Composer Dependencies working-directory: ./app run: composer install --prefer-dist - name: Run Tests working-directory: ./app run: php bin/phpunit Alternatively, you can run it all in one step so that you only need to specify working-directory once.
name: CI on: [push] jobs: phpunit: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v1 - name: Setup and run tests working-directory: ./app run: | cp .env.dev .env composer install --prefer-dist php bin/phpunit If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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