How to determine whether running workflows with act?

[theowenyoung]

Hi,

I can check if a workflow running in Github Actions by ${{ env.GITHUB_ACTIONS=='true'}}, but act also define env GITHUB_ACTIONS: true, so how to determine whether running workflows with act?

There are some steps that I only want to run with Github, not locally.

Example:

name: Build Site
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  push:
jobs:
  run:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Run
    steps:
      - name: Create Pull Request
        uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v3
        if: env.GITHUB_ACTION=='true'
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.PERSONAL_TOKEN }}

How to define if condition?

[austinsasko]

I think this is something that can have an env var for act specifically. e.g. in the runner context code I can add a line for
env["ACT_LOCAL"] = "true" and some other code where needed (e.g. dist index.js in repo)

Then in the job you can specify
if: env.ACT_LOCAL=='true' and have that job only execute when running from act on your local machine

Would this provide you the functionality you are looking for?

[theowenyoung]

@austinsasko yes, that totally solves my problem..

[torbjornvatn]

This is actually solved in #417 which was merged to master yesterday.
It introduces an ACT=true environment variable

[MattKiazyk]

@torbjornvatn when can we expect a release that has #417 in it?

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