setup-raku for GitHub Actions

Now Raku has setup-raku for GitHub Actions!

Raku/setup-raku

It downloads appropriate prebuilt rakudo binaries from https://rakudo.org/downloads so that you can set up rakudo very quickly.

A basic workflow file looks like:

name: test
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - '*'
    tags-ignore:
      - '*'
  pull_request:
jobs:
  raku:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: Raku/setup-raku@v1
      - run: raku -V
      - name: Install dependencies
        run: |
          zef install --/test --test-depends --deps-only .
          zef install --/test App::Prove6
      - name: Run tests
        run: prove6 -l t

Moreover, you can easily create a build matrix, which tests your Raku project against linux/macos/windows and various Raku versions:

name: test
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - '*'
    tags-ignore:
      - '*'
  pull_request:
jobs:
  raku:
    strategy:
      matrix:
        os:
          - ubuntu-latest
          - macOS-latest
          - windows-latest
        raku-version:
          - "2020.06"
          - "2020.05.1"
          - "2020.02.1"
          - "2020.01"
          - "2019.11"
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: Raku/setup-raku@v1
        with:
          raku-version: ${{ matrix.raku-version }}
      - run: raku -V
      - name: Install dependencies
        run: |
          zef install --/test --test-depends --deps-only .
          zef install --/test App::Prove6
      - name: Run tests
        run: prove6 -l t

In fact, I’m using setup-raku in mi6, and it is quite good!