How to set-up GitHub actions for Julia

[prosoitos]

I was never planning on having GitHub actions run my code, but I am stuck with #3628 and I need my site to build.

So I decided to go the hard route and create a virtual env and dependency file.

There is a lot of documentation for Python and R, but not that I could find for Julia.

I did come across #1483 but it didn't help much.

[mcanouil]

What's the question/context exactly?

From a quick Internet search: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=julia+github+actions
The first result is the official Julia organisation for GitHub actions (https://github.com/julia-actions).
The first pinned repository is https://github.com/julia-actions/setup-julia

What you need to do is simply to add the setup-julia as for R or Python in your Quarto Publish action and before Quarto step.

edit: an example of GHA workflow

on:
  push:
    branches: main

name: Render and Publish

jobs:
  build-deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - uses: quarto-dev/quarto-actions/setup@v2
      - uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@v1
      - uses: quarto-dev/quarto-actions/publish@v2
        with:
          target: gh-pages
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

ps: the main reason you did not get actual answer in the issue you opened is mostly because there was no code or repository which does not allow anyone to help.
This is the "help us help you" kind of credo.

[prosoitos]

Ah. Thank you. This should get me started.

As for my other answer: sorry, I didn't think of it. I have now shared the repo.