access-to-private-repo.md

1. access token

# Use a https link. It's important for the authentication part.
gem "your_gem", git: "https://github.com/<owner>/<repo>.git", branch: "your_branch"

1.1 Setup Token 1.2 put into env as BUNDLE_GITHUB__COM detail

name: your_job

jobs:
  your_job:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    env:
      BUNDLE_GITHUB__COM: "x-access-token:${{ secrets.YOUR_SECRET_NAME }}"

deploy key

1. generate deployment key with ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096
2. create and paste the key to new deployment key
3. add private key of 1 to repo trying to access private repo as Actions Secret
4. use secret in Github Actions

single key

# .github/workflows/ci.yml
jobs:
  compile-and-test:
    ...
    steps:
    ...
    - name: Give GitHub Actions access to Michael-F-Bryan/my-secret-repo
      uses: webfactory/ssh-agent@v0.5.4
      with:
        ssh-private-key: ${{ secrets.SECRET_REPO_DEPLOY_KEY }}

multiple keys

# ... contents as before
            - uses: webfactory/ssh-agent@v0.7.0
              with:
                  ssh-private-key: |
                        ${{ secrets.FIRST_KEY }}
                        ${{ secrets.NEXT_KEY }}
                        ${{ secrets.ANOTHER_KEY }}

multile keys from here

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/webfactory-ssh-agent

Reference

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1. https://lerso.hashnode.dev/how-to-use-a-gem-in-a-private-github-repo-in-your-rails-application