service name for tic

[helgasoft]

Glad to find 'tic' and like the simplicity and abstraction. 👍
It is working great for code testing, but I'm having a problem with test coverage .
My provider is coveralls.io and I'm trying to set it up in YAML. The covr::coveralls call is expecting a service name with default 'travis-ci'. I cannot use the default, or 'tic'. My understanding is that GitHub Actions is the actual service, but what would be the correct name ?

#> tic::use_tic(wizard = FALSE, linux = "ghactions", mac = "ghactions", 
#               windows = "ghactions", deploy = "ghactions", matrix = "none")
#> Done! Thanks for using tic.

# ---------- my test-coverage.yaml 
    steps:  ...
      - name: Test coverage
        run: covr::coveralls( service_name = ??? )
        shell: Rscript {0}

Thank you in advance for your guidance.

[pat-s]

Great that you like the project.

The main idea is to have all calls in tic.R, in a language-agnostic way.
The YAML files should usually not be changed.

You would want to do something like

add_code_step(covr::coveralls(service_name = ???))

[helgasoft]

Wish it was that simple. Here is the solution.
Could tic replicate that?

• eventually the three name steps with add_code_step() ?
• gha_add_secret() for COVERALLS_API ?

But can tic write to the environment, in env section? There is ci_get_env to read, but could not find any command to write.
Would be great to have full control thru tic.R

[pat-s]

You can write arbitrary R code in add_code_step() and hence also reference env vars (e.g. COVERALLS_TOKEN).

But can tic write to the environment, in env section?

You can/should define additional env vars derived from secrets in the GHA YAML, yes. Then you can reference them in builds.

I think what you want is something like add_code_step(covr::coveralls(service_name = ci_get_env("COVERALLS_TOKEN"))).

gha_add_secret() is a wrapper for adding secrets into GHA, not for managing them throughout the build. If there is something unclear in the documentation of this one, please let us know.