GitHub Actions builds failing on Ref App and HFE modules (and probably more projects)

[mseaton (Mike Seaton)]

@ibacher

Some modules (including openmrs-module-referenceapplication) rely on a version of Sass downloaded from a RubyGem repository that Maven can speak to. The repo that we are using for that is unmaintained and not available via HTTPS and there don’t seem to be any alternatives providing that service (I tried to setup our Artifactory instance, but while it can serve as a Gem repo, it doesn’t do the Gem → Maven conversion; JRuby, which is the whole reason that Maven repo for Gems existed long ago migrated to using the same code to fetch Gems as Mats Ruby) . For those modules, we’ll need to pin the build to use Maven 3.6.3, e.g., by leveraging this. The long-term solution here is probably to migrate to using the libsass-maven-plugin since the ruby-sass gem is EOL’d

This plugin looks interesting. We actually ( and by we, I mean @bistenes ) recently updated our pihcore module to finally replace the ruby-gems sass compilation with one based on Javascript. Brandon’s work to do that can be seen here:

Use npx sass for sass compilation, not ruby (#266)

So that’s another approach to consider (I haven’t done a comparison of using npx vs. the libsass-maven-plugin). Perhaps @bistenes could comment. It would be great to get rid of the ruby gems across the reference application ecosystem.

• Mike