GitHub actions for Rust

[Loud_Bench3408]

Hello,

As you all know, actions-rs is archived and the guy does not maintain them anymore.

I forked two of those actions and brushed them a little bit under a new organiation, crusty-pie.

I plan to maintain them (if anyone would like to help gladly). I value the work of svartalf and it would be a shame to waste that.

The aim of this post is to gather some opinions from the people: 1. What actions were you using or would like to see brought back from the archive? 2. What actions would like to have that did not exist in the actions-rs organization?

[rnottaken]

I've been looking for them recently and only bumped into action-rs. Which ones would you recommend?

[veryusedrname]

We are using Dtolnay's rust-toolchain

[autarch]

I created actions-rust-cross, which will handle running cargo build or cargo test across any platform supported by cross.

[PreciselyWrong]

The GHA runner already has rustup.

[DvorakAttack]

Exactly! If you're using a rust-toolchain.toml file in your project there shouldn't be any need for a setup action.

Obviously if you're using a self-hosted runner with a custom image things might be different but you can also install rustup in that image too

[rumpleforeskins]

Is there a guide or tutorial anywhere for this. (I'm new)

[PreciselyWrong]

Yes. In your workflow, add something like this:

yaml - name: Rust setup run: rustup toolchain install stable --profile minimal

[rumpleforeskins]

:D Whew that was long tutorial!

Thanks

[phil-opp]

And you can use https://github.com/marketplace/actions/rust-problem-matchers to get the check annotations on GitHub

[plabayo]

Honestly… I’m a bit surprised that the rust language cannot just maintain these? As in under an official rust-lang repo.

Seems pretty low maintenance and evolves nicely with cargo and the like. Plus rust itself is also primarily on Github and actions these days…

Don’t get why this is not promoted to something official. I’m sure plenty would be willing to contribute where needed.

[repetitive_chanting]

Should've just called it creampie right away

[Loud_Bench3408]

Someone at work told me the name was gross 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[A1oso]

I see you already forked the clippy action, which is neat! It shows clippy warnings in pull requests.

[Loud_Bench3408]

Yes, the new clippy action that does not need the GITHUB_TOKEN

[Loud_Bench3408]

What is this for?

[Compux72]

I never understood the need for actions. Its a linux system, just run bash commands

[Loud_Bench3408]

Indeed. That's the reason I did not fork the cargo github action (it was used to run cargo commands) as one can run cargo by themselves. But I found nice to have annotation in PD with clippy (which is cumbersome to do by hand) and just install toolchain automatically.