Unit Tests Not Finding Dependencies about circleci-demo-go HOT 2 CLOSED

Hi @stmcallister , apologies for the confusion you had encountered. This project has been updated but the Language Guide: Go had not yet been updated to be in sync with the changes to the project. We'll be looking into improving this.

Unlike the previous version of this demo project (which the language guide was based on), the current version implicitly utilises Go module support (see: https://circleci.com/blog/go-v1.11-modules-and-circleci/) by invoking the Go command outside of $GOPATH. If you set the working_directory to a path that is inside $GOPATH, that would disable Go module support, and hence the dependency information that was put in https://github.com/CircleCI-Public/circleci-demo-go/blob/master/go.mod would not be used to fetch dependencies. I believe that's why you encountered the need to fetch the dependencies in a separate step with go get.

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Turns out these errors occured because I was setting the working_directory as mentioned in the Language Guide: Go. I thought that the Language Guide Sample Configuration was supposed to match the configuration settings in this project. But, that is not true.

Someone can correct me, if I'm wrong, but this is what I believe happens. If you set the working_directory in the config.yml then that config is going to be looking for dependencies locally on your machine. If that's the case, then you need to go get three dependencies: github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter, github.com/mattes/migrate, and github.com/stretchr/testify/require. Or, just leave config.yml as is and don't set working_directory and run the project. Either way worked for me.

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