Research project: GitHub Actions / rails grade?

[raghubetina]

Part of the motivation for writing an automated test based

When I first made an automated test-based grading system, the motivations included:

• Familiarizing students with the idea of automated testing.
• Familiarizing students with the idea of continuous integration.

The very first version had students branch off a master repository and pushing commits to it, and they all had their own CircleCI accounts which would run a build, which included a rails grade step.

Eventually I phased that out due to complexity. Would GitHub Actions make it worth bringing back, since we can eliminate a 3rd party CI service? We could keep the command line rails grade in place.

Potentially worth investigating in conjunction with https://github.com/firstdraft/appdev/issues/269

[raghubetina]

Possibly helpful:

https://boringrails.com/articles/building-a-rails-ci-pipeline-with-github-actions/