build.yml

name: "Build and release PDFs"

on:
  push:
    branches: [ master, main ]
    paths: 
      - "**/*.tex"
  pull_request:
    branches: [ master, main ]
    paths: 
      - "**/*.tex"

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    container:
      image: ghcr.io/moderncv/debian-texlive-docker:main
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Build resume PDFs # the forward slash after asterisk is important for ignoring regular files
        run: |
          for folder in $(ls -d resumes/*/ | grep -v "resumes/header"); do 
          cd $folder && ls
          NAME=$(basename "$folder")
          latexmk -pdf -jobname="$NAME-r${{github.run_number}}"
          cd -
          done
      - name: Build cover letter PDFs
        run: |
          for folder in $(ls -d cover-letters/*/ | grep -v "cover-letters/header"); do 
          cd $folder && ls
          NAME=$(basename "$folder") 
          latexmk -pdf -jobname="cover-$NAME-r${{github.run_number}}"
          cd -
          done
      - name: Upload PDFs
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
        with:
          name: docs
          path: |
            cover-letters/*/*.pdf
            resumes/*/*.pdf
  release:
    needs: build
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' || github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
    steps:
      - name: make an artifacts directory
        run: mkdir artifacts
      - name: Download all workflow run artifacts
        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
        with:
          path: ./artifacts
          merge-multiple: true
      - name: Show artifacts
        run: ls -R .
      - name: Create a release
        env:
          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
        run: >
          gh release create --latest --repo ${{github.repository}} 
          "r${{github.run_number}}" ./artifacts/resumes/*/*.pdf ./artifacts/cover-letters/*/*.pdf