How to run turso in CI (Github workflow)

[mattallty]

Hey,

is there an easy way to run turso (and turso dev specifically) within a Github workflow?
Install fails when doing:

- name: install turso
   run: curl -sSfL https://get.tur.so/install.sh | bash
   env:
     TURSO_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.TURSO_API_TOKEN }}

btw, TURSO_API_TOKEN does not seem to be taken into account by the install script.
Also, turso dev asks for a sqld instance though the docs says it embeds its own instance.

The goal is to execute turso in my workflow to run tests. I guess a docker image would be the solution (running it as a service container).

Happy to create an issue if needed

[CodingDoug]

The install script is independent of any invocations of the CLI itself, so setting the token in the environment for the install script wouldn't change the way those CLI invocations work. If you download and look at the script, you won't see any mentions of TURSO_API_TOKEN - it's just not used at all.

If you want to set the token for the CLI, you'd probably want to do that in every workflow step that actually runs the turso command after it's installed.

I just checked by running it myself, and turso dev doesn't require a token to be set at all (because it currently doesn't need to know anything about your managed database). All it does by default is start a local sqld with a completely fresh in-memory database. If you're having problems with that, it might help if you provide more complete and specific details about what you're doing that doesn't work. I'm not clear what you mean by "turso dev asks for a sqld instance". Do you have an actual error message, and the version of the CLI that printed it? (turso --version) The latest version right now is 0.62.1.