atomic mango
I am trying to run the exercism projects on replit.
I've successfully installed the exercism CLI
I've configured the CLI using my personal API key
Downloading the individual project files also works
After downloading the files, I can't seem to find the files
The file path is written on the shell too but I have no idea how to access the files
I've tried using cd to change directory to the file path printed on the console but it's always saying not found
celest breach
I did not know you can use replit with exercism's tooling. Interestint.
What is the output of ls /home/runner/exercism/python ?
And please don't post screenshots but text, it is a lot easier to read.
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atomic mango
ls home/runner/exercism/python outputs cannot 'access home/runner/exercism/python': No such file or directory
celest breach
Maybe it does not work and you don't have that kind of access rights for syour replit session. I don't know about those features, so it is pure speculation, sorry
atomic mango
@celest breach thanks
deep bison
``` ls home/runner/exercism/python ``` outputs ```cannot 'access home/runner/ex...
Try that with a / in front of /home
~/Exercism and ~/exercism are different directories on Linux
atomic mango
@deep bison same result
wide pelican
Can you show the result for these two commands?
ls /home/runner/exercism
ls /home/runner/exercism/python
Even ls /home returns the above result
grizzled oasis
Some more diagnostic commands to try
pwd
whoami
ls -lh /
echo $HOME
It might be that the current user doesn't have a home directory. In that case, you can check what directories you have permissions for and change exercism cli's directory to /tmp/exercism or something
I guess also try mount to see if the container has any volume mounts
atomic mango
Thanks @grizzled oasis I don't quite understand your suggestion but after trying them things seems to get better
ls /home/runner/exercism/python stopped bringing out this output cannot 'access home/runner/exercism/python': No such file or directory
Infact there are errors when changing to this directory but still yet I can't access the downloaded files, the file hierarchy on this repl remains unchanged
wide pelican
I've seen ls home/runner/exercism/python twice in your comments.
Beware: the paths some_directory and /some_directory can be different. The leading / means the root folder.
So make sure you typed in ls /home/runner/exercism/python (with leading /), not ls home/runner/exercism/python (without leading /).
atomic mango
@wide pelican I typed with the leading slash forgot to put it here
wide pelican
What baffles me is that the output of the CLI in your first comment clearly says:
"Downloaded to /home/runner/exercism/python/making-the-grade"
I don't know what's going on, I hope one of the other folks has an idea.
grizzled oasis
Thanks <@189103847648657408> I don't quite understand your suggestion but after ...
The comands that I suggested will produce some output, which can help with figuring out what's wrong; none of these commands will change anything.
pwd: prints the current working directory - I suggested this because it looks like you're working in a container, and often when you enter a container, it'll put you in a home directory that you have write access to
whoami - prints the name of the current user. I'm expecting it print runner based on where exercism tried to download the files to, but it might print something else
ls -lh / -- this lists the files/directories that are in the root directory, /. You said earlier that ls /home produced an error, which indicates a pretty restrictive environment, so it's good to know which of the other usual directories are accessible
echo $HOME is asking the shell that you're in where it thinks your current user's home directory is.
deep bison
The VM might offer a write-only filesystem for whatever reasons
Though I have no idea how you would have downloaded and run the exercism cli
grizzled oasis
Yeah. In that case, /tmp might still be writeable but may be ephemeral
there's an ~/Exercism directory in the screenshot, exercism configure -w ~/Exercism might work so that it would download the files to that directory
deep bison
If you can run the exercism cli, you were able to write and read that executable
Maybe the directory cannot be listed (execute permission) but the binary has +rwx set
atomic mango
Thanks @grizzled oasis. Am a complete noob at using CLI but I think I somehow grasp what you're explaining.
Please any suggestions on how I can change the exercism CLI to /tmp/exercism
grizzled oasis
try exercism configure -w /tmp/exercism
and then try to redownload the exercise
Some background reading on how to use the cli , it'll help for learning how to move around, change directories, find out what's in a directory, stuff like that https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Linux_Guide/Using_the_shell
deep bison
Where is the exercism CLI executable located? How did you install it?
What do you get when you run type -p exercism ?
atomic mango
@grizzled oasis thanks.
I can't believe, it worked. Thanks a lot.
I'll go through the article u shared to get better acquainted too.
Thanks @deep bison
grizzled oasis
It looks like you downloaded the exercise to /home/runner/Exercism/python/making-the-grade, but then you changed the exercism workspace directory to /tmp/exercism -- which is what i suggested when i didn't know where the exercise was being downloaded to, because it's the directory you're most likely to have write access to.
I think the best path forward here is to set exercism's directory to /home/runner/Exercism, exercism configure -w /home/runner/Exercism and then try exercism submit again.
After that, I think things will just work, now that you know how to use pwd and ls and cd to find where you are, what's in a directory, and navigate to different exercises that you download
atomic mango
@grizzled oasis thanks ama try that
grizzled oasis
good skill 🙂
atomic mango
Tried it out. It worked can't thank you enough 😭
grizzled oasis
Awesome, glad we could help
atomic mango
Please one more thing, most probably the last.
Trying to test from the console returns the error in the attached picture, any suggestions?
deep bison
Images are hard to read. Sharing text in a codeblock makes it much easier for us to read.
atomic mango
Okay I basically did this after changing to the directory where the test file is located
python3 -m pytest -o markers=task loops-test.py
It resulted in this being displayed:
/nix/store/1gc9wvzsy15pclrqfspii166pt2lmh5i-python3-3.10.13/bin/python3: No module named pytest
deep bison
That sounds like you need to install pytest
grizzled oasis
the track documentation talks about how to install it. You should follow the linux instructions https://exercism.org/docs/tracks/python/tests
celest breach
the track documentation talks about how to install it. You should follow the lin...
As they are doing it in the replit env, I don't think the link is of much use.
grizzled oasis
As they are doing it in the replit env, I don't think the link is of much use.
You don't think python3 -m pip install pytest pytest-cache pytest-subtests pytest-pylint will work, given that they managed to install the exercism client?
I've never used replit and I only had nix installed for a few days before switching to Arch, but I think it's worth try.
celest breach
I just wanted to point out, that their use case is a lot more restricted than a normal machine
deep bison
If they managed to install exercism, they can get the pytest files on the machine somehow 😄
Though that doesn't mean it will be easy
atomic mango
Thanks @grizzled oasis and @celest breach and @deep bison
I installed pytest
And everything's been working like charm 😂
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