In order to run our unit tests in GitHub action workflows, we need a database to connect to. I have read a bit into GitHub action services, and I tried to set something up, so that we can spin up a postgres instance while testing. I don't think it necessarily works, however. Im using act to test locally.
I see us having two options:
Host database somewhere else to test against. Maybe we can point at the eventual pephub database
Spin up database inside the github action containers.
khoroshevskyi
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1 year ago
In order to run our unit tests in GitHub action workflows, we need a database to connect to. I have read a bit into GitHub action services, and I tried to set something up, so that we can spin up a postgres instance while testing. I don't think it necessarily works, however. Im using act to test locally.
I see us having two options:
I'm more partial to option 2 (or other options if there are other options!) Help is very much appreciated here. You can see the action I've got setup so far, here: https://github.com/pepkit/pephub_db/blob/dev_nathan/.github/workflows/pytest.yml