Ruby gh action pins setup-ruby to 2yr old commit

[0atman]

The default github action ruby template references this old commit which doesn't have any modern rubies 473e4d8

Solution

We fixed this by updating the pinned version to the latest release alphagov/forms-api@e3c8ad2

I think the template that github is using should either be unpinned to just v1, or regularly updated to the latest release hash.

Thank you

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the code of or a link to the workflow used

"Ruby" from https://github.com/alphagov/forms-api/actions/new?category=none&query=ruby

the link to the log of a failed workflow job

https://github.com/alphagov/forms-api/runs/6093152207?check_suite_focus=true

the command and output of the step failing

Run ruby/setup-ruby@473e4d8fe5dd94ee328fdfca9f8c9c7afc9dae5e
Error: Unknown version 3.0.3 for ruby on ubuntu-20.04
        available versions for ruby on ubuntu-20.04: 2.1.9, 2.2.10, 2.3.0, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.3.5, 2.3.6, 2.3.7, 2.3.8, 2.4.0, 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.3, 2.4.4, 2.4.5, 2.4.6, 2.4.7, 2.4.9, 2.4.10, 2.5.0, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.4, 2.5.5, 2.5.6, 2.5.7, 2.5.8, 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.6.5, 2.6.6, 2.7.0, 2.7.1, 2.7.2, 3.0.0-preview1, 3.0.0-preview2, 3.0.0-rc1, 3.0.0, head, debug
        File an issue at https://github.com/ruby/setup-ruby/issues if would like support for a new version

whether you are using a self-hosted runner

Not self-hosted.

[eregon]

See actions/starter-workflows#823 (comment)
I agree, but GitHub doesn't :/

What you can do is a PR to update https://github.com/actions/starter-workflows/blob/ad9daa8da372928e50064995bb1c2f542c0c345c/ci/ruby.yml#L33 to use the latest commit sha.

[eregon]

Maybe someone should write an action opening a PR per week/month to update the sha in that repo and then maybe GitHub would realize the current situation is untenable. But also it would annoy people and that's never good.

[dentarg]

There's also pages on https://docs.github.com/ that needs updates, where the helpful comment in the starter workflow isn't even allowed (github/docs#15240 (comment)) :/

[eregon]

Good point, I replied there as well. We got official confirmation for that helpful comment, so I think they must allow it in the docs too.

[0atman]

oh I filed this in the wrong place, apologies! Thanks for your work!

[0atman]

Ask and ye shall receive actions/starter-workflows#1542 (comment)

Updated to latest 👌