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Test automation for Laravel 7 and MySQL with GitHub Actions

Roberto B. on June 04, 2020

GitHub Actions (https://github.com/features/actions) is a powerful service provided by GitHub for continuous integration and continuous delivery. ...
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Oleg Andreyev •

Few things:

  • when running unit test you don’t need database, otherwise it’s not a unit tests. I’d suggest split test cases in test suites, e.g.: unit and functional (running unnecessary steps is just taking seconds and billed)
  • no needs to store test database as a secret, how cares about it? I personally use secrets for “real secret” as PAT
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Roberto B. •

thank you for the feedback. very useful and everything make sense. i will update the article with latest version of the tools, and i will also take in consideration your feedback. thank you again!!!

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Roberto B. •

I created an Open Source tool for creating GitHub Actions workflow for Laravel application. The source code is: github.com/Hi-Folks/gh-actions-yam... . You can use a demo here: ghygen.hi-folks.dev/

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Bobby •

This tool is supper cool!

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Roberto B. •

Thank you! If you have any feedback or suggestion or feature request, feel free to raise your hand 🚀

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Jonathan Zarate •

Hi, Roberto.
I have the same configuration, but github actions throws me the exception.

 SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused (SQL: SHOW FULL TABLES WHERE table_type = 'BASE TABLE')
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Roberto B. •

Hi Jonathan. Thank you for the feedback.
I woul like to check one thing. Assuming that all things are correct, how is confogured your DB_HOST?
On your .env file :
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
Later i will be at my laptop and i will try to replicate your issue.

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Jonathan Zarate •

Yeah, the DB_HOST is 127.0.0.1

Can I share my configuration of my yaml file?

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Roberto B. •

Sure!

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Jonathan Zarate •

gist.github.com/zaratedev/e385c948...

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Roberto B. •

I see you are using MYSQL_ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD.
Just to give a try , instead of MYSQL_ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD , please try to use a password.
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: secret

and setting the same passoword in the env section with DB_PASSWORD: secret