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+# This Evennia workflow will install Python dependencies, run tests with a variety of Python versions
+# For more information see: https://help.github.com/actions/language-and-framework-guides/using-python-with-github-actions
+
+name: Evennia
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ master, develop ]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ master, develop ]
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        python-version: [3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8]
+        TESTING_DB: [sqlite3, postgresql, mysql]
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+      with:
+        python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+    - name: Set up databases
+      run: | 
+        psql --version
+        psql -U postgres -c "CREATE DATABASE evennia;"
+        psql -U postgres -c "CREATE USER evennia WITH PASSWORD 'password';"
+        psql -U postgres -c "ALTER USER evennia CREATEDB;"
+        mysql --version
+        mysql -u root -e "CREATE DATABASE evennia CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;"
+        mysql -u root -e "CREATE USER 'evennia'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';"
+        mysql -u root -e "GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'evennia'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';"
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      run: |
+        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+        pip install psycopg2-binary
+        pip install mysqlclient
+        pip install coveralls
+        pip install codacy-coverage
+        pip install -e .
+        pip install -r requirements_extra.txt
+    - name: Set up evennia
+      run: |
+        evennia --init testing_mygame
+        cp .travis/${{ matrix.TESTING_DB }}_settings.py testing_mygame/server/conf/settings.py
+        cd testing_mygame
+        evennia migrate
+        evennia collectstatic --noinput
+    - name: run test 
+      run: |
+        coverage run --source=../evennia --omit=*/migrations/*,*/urls.py,*/test*.py,*.sh,*.txt,*.md,*.pyc,*.service ../bin/unix/evennia test --settings=settings --keepdb evennia
+  coveralls: 
+    steps:
+      - name: upload to coveralls
+        run: |
+          coveralls
+          coverage xml
+          python-codacy-coveraage -r coverage.xml