[REQUEST] Study possibility to run GitHub actions locally

[ghost]

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This a split of #416

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Study possibility to run locally github actions
https://github.com/nektos/act

[ghost]

It's actually super simple to use act. We have a bug though so I'll see after refactoring the GitHub workflows in the Docker image PR. #384

[e-lo]

This seems like a good solution to some of my other requests.

I was able to download and install act very easily but got this error when running it (not sure it is same one you all got)

(base) elizabeth@Elizabeths-MacBook-Pro-2 gtfs-validator % act
[Java CI/build   ] 🚀  Start image=node:12.6-buster-slim
[End to end/build] 🚀  Start image=node:12.6-buster-slim
[Java CI/build   ]   🐳  docker run image=node:12.6-buster-slim entrypoint=["/usr/bin/tail" "-f" "/dev/null"] cmd=[]
[End to end/build]   🐳  docker run image=node:12.6-buster-slim entrypoint=["/usr/bin/tail" "-f" "/dev/null"] cmd=[]
[Java CI/build   ]   🐳  docker cp src=/Users/elizabeth/Documents/urbanlabs/CA Interoperable/gtfs-validator/. dst=/github/workspace
[End to end/build]   🐳  docker cp src=/Users/elizabeth/Documents/urbanlabs/CA Interoperable/gtfs-validator/. dst=/github/workspace
Error: error during connect: Post "http://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/v1.40/exec/0065c54f6c29faca7249ab278e81e5e395f6b86dee472800ab0746297de34754/start": net/http: HTTP/1.x transport connection broken: unsupported transfer encoding: "identity"

[ghost]

So, syncing the latest version of master and passing the command act -j run-on-data
Now works fine with the validator running on all datasets until the persist artifact steps...

... which is a known issue of act
nektos/act#329

The files in question can be manually collected inside the container.
Datasets .zip files are present as well as validation reports .json in the output folder

I think that's as far as we can go presently. Do you think @e-lo that would be enough to close this issue after updating the documentation?

[ghost]

@e-lo the documentation has been updated. Let us know as we will merge it for release v1.3.0 that should happen today no earlier than 14:00 EST

See https://github.com/MobilityData/gtfs-validator/tree/local-github-action#via-run-on-data-github-workflow-job