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Building and testing Ruby

You can create a continuous integration (CI) workflow to build and test your Ruby project.

注意

GitHub Enterprise Server 目前不支持 GitHub 托管的运行器。 可以在 GitHub public roadmap 上查看有关未来支持计划的更多信息。

Introduction

This guide shows you how to create a continuous integration (CI) workflow that builds and tests a Ruby application. If your CI tests pass, you may want to deploy your code or publish a gem.

Prerequisites

We recommend that you have a basic understanding of Ruby, YAML, workflow configuration options, and how to create a workflow file. For more information, see:

Using a Ruby workflow template

若要快速开始使用,请将工作流模板添加到存储库的 .github/workflows 目录。

GitHub provides a workflow template for Ruby that should work for most Ruby projects. The subsequent sections of this guide give examples of how you can customize this workflow template.

  1. 在 GitHub 上,导航到存储库的主页面。

  2. 在存储库名称下,单击 “操作”。

    “github/docs”存储库的选项卡的屏幕截图。 “操作”选项卡以橙色边框突出显示。

  3. 如果存储库中已有工作流,请单击“新建工作流”。

  4. The "Choose a workflow" page shows a selection of recommended workflow templates. Search for "ruby".

  5. Filter the selection of workflows by clicking Continuous integration.

  6. On the "Ruby" workflow, click Configure.

    If you don't find the "Ruby" workflow template, copy the following workflow code to a new file called ruby.yml in the .github/workflows directory of your repository.

    YAML
    name: Ruby
    
    on:
      push:
        branches: [ "main" ]
      pull_request:
        branches: [ "main" ]
    
    permissions:
      contents: read
    
    jobs:
      test:
        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
        strategy:
          matrix:
            ruby-version: ['2.6', '2.7', '3.0']
    
        steps:
        - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        - name: Set up Ruby
        # To automatically get bug fixes and new Ruby versions for ruby/setup-ruby,
        # change this to (see http://github.com/ruby/setup-ruby#versioning):
        # uses: ruby/setup-ruby@v1
          uses: ruby/setup-ruby@55283cc23133118229fd3f97f9336ee23a179fcf # v1.146.0
          with:
            ruby-version: ${{ matrix.ruby-version }}
            bundler-cache: true # runs 'bundle install' and caches installed gems automatically
        - name: Run tests
          run: bundle exec rake
    
  7. Edit the workflow as required. For example, change the Ruby versions you want to use.

    注意

    • 此工作流模板包含未通过 GitHub 认证的操作。 第三方提供的操作受单独的服务条款、隐私政策和支持文档管辖。
    • 如果使用来自第三方的操作,则应使用提交 SHA 指定的版本。 如果操作已被修改,并且需要使用较新版本,则需要更新 SHA。 可以通过引用标记或分支来指定版本,但操作可能会在没有事先警告的情况下更改。 有关详细信息,请参阅“Security hardening for GitHub Actions”。
  8. Click Commit changes.

Specifying the Ruby version

The easiest way to specify a Ruby version is by using the ruby/setup-ruby action provided by the Ruby organization on GitHub. The action adds any supported Ruby version to PATH for each job run in a workflow. For more information and available Ruby versions, see ruby/setup-ruby.

Using Ruby's ruby/setup-ruby action is the recommended way of using Ruby with GitHub Actions because it ensures consistent behavior across different runners and different versions of Ruby.

The setup-ruby action takes a Ruby version as an input and configures that version on the runner.

steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- uses: ruby/setup-ruby@ec02537da5712d66d4d50a0f33b7eb52773b5ed1
  with:
    ruby-version: '3.1' # Not needed with a .ruby-version file
- run: bundle install
- run: bundle exec rake

Alternatively, you can check a .ruby-version file into the root of your repository and setup-ruby will use the version defined in that file.

Testing with multiple versions of Ruby

You can add a matrix strategy to run your workflow with more than one version of Ruby. For example, you can test your code against the latest patch releases of versions 3.1, 3.0, and 2.7.

strategy:
  matrix:
    ruby-version: ['3.1', '3.0', '2.7']

Each version of Ruby specified in the ruby-version array creates a job that runs the same steps. The ${{ matrix.ruby-version }} context is used to access the current job's version. For more information about matrix strategies and contexts, see GitHub Actions 的工作流语法 and 访问有关工作流运行的上下文信息.

The full updated workflow with a matrix strategy could look like this:

# 此工作流使用未经 GitHub 认证的操作。
# 它们由第三方提供,并受
# 单独的服务条款、隐私政策和支持
# 文档。

# GitHub 建议将操作固定到提交 SHA。
# 若要获取较新版本,需要更新 SHA。
# 还可以引用标记或分支,但该操作可能会更改而不发出警告。

name: Ruby CI

on:
  push:
    branches: [ main ]
  pull_request:
    branches: [ main ]

jobs:
  test:

    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    strategy:
      matrix:
        ruby-version: ['3.1', '3.0', '2.7']

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Set up Ruby ${{ matrix.ruby-version }}
        uses: ruby/setup-ruby@ec02537da5712d66d4d50a0f33b7eb52773b5ed1
        with:
          ruby-version: ${{ matrix.ruby-version }}
      - name: Install dependencies
        run: bundle install
      - name: Run tests
        run: bundle exec rake

Installing dependencies with Bundler

The setup-ruby action will automatically install bundler for you. The version is determined by your gemfile.lock file. If no version is present in your lockfile, then the latest compatible version will be installed.

steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- uses: ruby/setup-ruby@ec02537da5712d66d4d50a0f33b7eb52773b5ed1
  with:
    ruby-version: '3.1'
- run: bundle install

Caching dependencies

The setup-ruby actions provides a method to automatically handle the caching of your gems between runs.

To enable caching, set the following.

steps:
- uses: ruby/setup-ruby@ec02537da5712d66d4d50a0f33b7eb52773b5ed1
  with:
    bundler-cache: true

This will configure bundler to install your gems to vendor/cache. For each successful run of your workflow, this folder will be cached by GitHub Actions and re-downloaded for subsequent workflow runs. A hash of your gemfile.lock and the Ruby version are used as the cache key. If you install any new gems, or change a version, the cache will be invalidated and bundler will do a fresh install.

Caching without setup-ruby

For greater control over caching, you can use the actions/cache action directly. For more information, see Caching dependencies to speed up workflows.

steps:
- uses: actions/cache@v4
  with:
    path: vendor/bundle
    key: ${{ runner.os }}-gems-${{ hashFiles('**/Gemfile.lock') }}
    restore-keys: |
      ${{ runner.os }}-gems-
- name: Bundle install
  run: |
    bundle config path vendor/bundle
    bundle install --jobs 4 --retry 3

If you're using a matrix build, you will want to include the matrix variables in your cache key. For example, if you have a matrix strategy for different ruby versions (matrix.ruby-version) and different operating systems (matrix.os), your workflow steps might look like this:

steps:
- uses: actions/cache@v4
  with:
    path: vendor/bundle
    key: bundle-use-ruby-${{ matrix.os }}-${{ matrix.ruby-version }}-${{ hashFiles('**/Gemfile.lock') }}
    restore-keys: |
      bundle-use-ruby-${{ matrix.os }}-${{ matrix.ruby-version }}-
- name: Bundle install
  run: |
    bundle config path vendor/bundle
    bundle install --jobs 4 --retry 3

Matrix testing your code

The following example matrix tests all stable releases and head versions of MRI, JRuby and TruffleRuby on Ubuntu and macOS.

# 此工作流使用未经 GitHub 认证的操作。
# 它们由第三方提供,并受
# 单独的服务条款、隐私政策和支持
# 文档。

# GitHub 建议将操作固定到提交 SHA。
# 若要获取较新版本,需要更新 SHA。
# 还可以引用标记或分支,但该操作可能会更改而不发出警告。

name: Matrix Testing

on:
  push:
    branches: [ main ]
  pull_request:
    branches: [ main ]

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}-latest
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
        os: [ubuntu, macos]
        ruby: [2.5, 2.6, 2.7, head, debug, jruby, jruby-head, truffleruby, truffleruby-head]
    continue-on-error: ${{ endsWith(matrix.ruby, 'head') || matrix.ruby == 'debug' }}
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: ruby/setup-ruby@ec02537da5712d66d4d50a0f33b7eb52773b5ed1
        with:
          ruby-version: ${{ matrix.ruby }}
      - run: bundle install
      - run: bundle exec rake

Linting your code

The following example installs rubocop and uses it to lint all files. For more information, see RuboCop. You can configure Rubocop to decide on the specific linting rules.

# 此工作流使用未经 GitHub 认证的操作。
# 它们由第三方提供,并受
# 单独的服务条款、隐私政策和支持
# 文档。

# GitHub 建议将操作固定到提交 SHA。
# 若要获取较新版本,需要更新 SHA。
# 还可以引用标记或分支,但该操作可能会更改而不发出警告。

name: Linting

on: [push]

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: ruby/setup-ruby@ec02537da5712d66d4d50a0f33b7eb52773b5ed1
        with:
          ruby-version: '2.6'
      - run: bundle install
      - name: Rubocop
        run: rubocop -f github

Specifying -f github means that the RuboCop output will be in GitHub's annotation format. Any linting errors will show inline in the Files changed tab of the pull request that introduces them.

Publishing Gems

You can configure your workflow to publish your Ruby package to any package registry you'd like when your CI tests pass.

You can store any access tokens or credentials needed to publish your package using repository secrets. The following example creates and publishes a package to GitHub Package Registry and RubyGems.

# 此工作流使用未经 GitHub 认证的操作。
# 它们由第三方提供,并受
# 单独的服务条款、隐私政策和支持
# 文档。

# GitHub 建议将操作固定到提交 SHA。
# 若要获取较新版本,需要更新 SHA。
# 还可以引用标记或分支,但该操作可能会更改而不发出警告。

name: Ruby Gem

on:
  # Manually publish
  workflow_dispatch:
  # Alternatively, publish whenever changes are merged to the `main` branch.
  push:
    branches: [ main ]
  pull_request:
    branches: [ main ]

jobs:
  build:
    name: Build + Publish
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      packages: write
      contents: read

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Set up Ruby 2.6
        uses: ruby/setup-ruby@ec02537da5712d66d4d50a0f33b7eb52773b5ed1
        with:
          ruby-version: '2.6'
      - run: bundle install

      - name: Publish to GPR
        run: |
          mkdir -p $HOME/.gem
          touch $HOME/.gem/credentials
          chmod 0600 $HOME/.gem/credentials
          printf -- "---\n:github: ${GEM_HOST_API_KEY}\n" > $HOME/.gem/credentials
          gem build *.gemspec
          gem push --KEY github --host http://rubygems.pkg.github.com/${OWNER} *.gem
        env:
          GEM_HOST_API_KEY: "Bearer ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}"
          OWNER: ${{ github.repository_owner }}

      - name: Publish to RubyGems
        run: |
          mkdir -p $HOME/.gem
          touch $HOME/.gem/credentials
          chmod 0600 $HOME/.gem/credentials
          printf -- "---\n:rubygems_api_key: ${GEM_HOST_API_KEY}\n" > $HOME/.gem/credentials
          gem build *.gemspec
          gem push *.gem
        env:
          GEM_HOST_API_KEY: "${{secrets.RUBYGEMS_AUTH_TOKEN}}"