Related to my last question. Does anyone know how to run github actions locally with the setup-gradle action? I've been looking at using nektos/act which seems popular as a local github action runner, but it doesn't support setup-gradle v4 or v5 (it does seem to work fine with v3 tho). Just wanna see if theres something the gradle community uses already

FWIW I've never gotten one to work well, so I usually make a new branch and add a

on:
  workflow_dispatch:

trigger so I can run it as needed. It almost never goes well if I'm doing anything more than basic, but it eventually gets the job done.

darn. def sucks that we cant repro easily. moving down to v3 seems to work with nektos act at least for easy things. for now i also just created a GHA sandbox repo in my private github where i can try some techniques for work projects. we'll see what happens. glad im not missing something obvious tho

has a integration with act, but it's archived. any chance you can give an explanation as to why its archived or what to use instead

I initially built a Gradle plugin with the idea to make it possible to validate GH actions locally by running a Gradle build before merging. But then I realized that a more handy

act

integration would target developers of new actions when they need to implement e2e tests. That's why I archived the plugin in favor of this testing library. Regardless, none of those would help with whatever issues pop up when running the

setup-gradle

action with

act

. From my experience,

act

may sometimes need additional configuration to execute certain actions (e.g., cache server). Sorry I have not seen your message earlier as I have just come back from a longer break. If you still have the error messages, I could take a look.

I think I just put a pause on nektos for now, but I'm sure I'll try again in the future. Hope you enjoyed your break. cheers