Gleam: Generate GitHub actions CI configuration for new projects

[lpil]

[stefanluptak]

Do you have some more info about this? I am not sure I understand the usage scenario.

[lpil]

I want to make gleam new $PROJECT generate a .github/workflow/whatever file so that Gleam projects are ready for CI by default, to make reduce friction getting set up with Gleam.

An idea picked up from Crystal language

[stefanluptak]

Oh, cool. Makes sense. I'll take look at it later.
A bit offtopic: could you please create new issue label to distinguish the GitHub Actions related ones, so I can better filter them?

[lpil]

It's not going to be a long-running piece of work so I don't want to create a label I'm afraid, they can't be archived.

[stefanluptak]

OK, never mind then. :-)

[stefanluptak]

I think we should create a setup-gleam action similar to this one https://github.com/actions/setup-elixir
Then the workflow would be as simple as:

on: push

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/[email protected]
      - uses: actions/[email protected]
        with:
          otp-version: 22.x
          gleam-version: 0.5.x
      - run: gleam build
# and maybe later - run: gleam test

Am I right?

[lpil]

Sounds good to me!

[stefanluptak]

Please assign to me. 🙏

[stefanluptak]

It might be a good solution to create something like setup-gleam repo here in gleam-lang organization and add me there as a collaborator. This way, the action will be under the right organization and we will not have to transfer or fork the repo later. What do you think @lpil?

[lpil]

Great idea! I have created the repo and added you as a collaberator.

https://github.com/gleam-lang/setup-gleam

I think we can use the setup-elixir repository as a base, swapping the Elixir specific code out for Gleam.