Adding both working-directory and start does not work.

[shicholas]

We have a monorepo containing many repos, therefore we use the working-directory directive in many of our GitHub Actions.

This did not work:

      - name: Run integration tests with cypress.
        uses: cypress-io/github-action@master
        with:
          start: npm ./web run dev
          wait-on: http://localhost:8000
          working-directory: ./web

and errored like:

/usr/local/bin/npm run dev
waiting on "http://localhost:8000" with timeout of 60 seconds
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall open
npm ERR! path /home/runner/work/codebase/codebase/package.json
npm ERR! errno -2

but this did:

      - name: Run integration tests with cypress.
        uses: cypress-io/github-action@master
        with:
          start: npm --prefix ./web run dev
          wait-on: http://localhost:8000
          working-directory: ./web

note the --prefix command to specify the same directory as the working-directory command.

[tristanbes]

I'm experiencing the same issue. I must run the tests from subdirectory sites/

            - name: Run Cypress
              if: startsWith(github.head_ref, 'dependabot') != true
              uses: cypress-io/github-action@v1
              with:
                  record: true
                  parallel: true
                  group: ${{ matrix.cypress.group }}
                  spec: ${{ matrix.cypress.spec }}
              working-directory: sites

It outputs:

### ERRORED 11:53:50Z

- Your workflow file was invalid: The pipeline is not valid. .github/workflows/ci.yml (Line: 333, Col: 15): Unexpected value 'working-directory',.github/workflows/ci.yml (Line: 340, Col: 15): Unexpected value 'working-directory'

[rodrigonehring]

@tristanbes "working-directory" doesn't work with "uses", must be within "with"

[bahmutov]

@shicholas can you please describe your folder structure. Is it

root/
  .github/workflows/...
  web/
    package.json with "dev" script

and you need to run npm run dev in the web subfolder?

[shicholas]

Yes, it's exactly that.

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-- - nick

[bahmutov]

I will mark this as a duplicate of #55 which should be fixed very soon