Has anyone tried `act` or other means of locally t...
# random
a
Has anyone tried
act
or other means of locally testing GitHub CI Actions? https://link.medium.com/hTUwS8rglrb
e
I had a bad experience with it, like workflows taking too long (pulling docker images), some tasks apparently not being compatible but hard to debug because of not too useful error messages
a
Thanks 🙏. Yeah, I tried something similar (don't remember its name) a while back and had similar unsatisfactory results. Not really smooth or something I could have recommended to others.
While I like the idea of local testing, the better and more reliable place for testing seems to still be "in production", meaning on a real repo - or for big changes, on a personal fork of the repo. 🤷‍♂️
s
Tried it too briefly but didn’t have a good experience either. Things that worked in github didn’t work in act and the reasons were non-obvious.