Testing stage is executiong when rule fails

When i have different values for $version_data and $latest_version my scripts is executing the code testing stage

stages:
  - Code Testing
  - Deploy
  # - Build Baselines

Testing:
  stage: Code Testing
  rules:
    - if: "$version_data == $latest_version"
      when: always
    - when: never

  script:
    - echo "test script is starting"
    - echo $version_data    
    - echo $latest_version

deployment:
  stage: Deploy
  only:
    refs: 
      - schedules
      - master
    variables:
      - $SCHEDULE_TYPE == "Deployment"
  tags:
    - shell

  script:
    
    - cd..

Output of the script:

Hi @sreekanthtoronto

I wonder whether this has something to do with Bash quoting? What do you get if you change:

- if: “$version_data == $latest_version”
  when: always

to:

- if: '$version_data == $latest_version'
  when: always

?

Hi Snim,

I made a mistike here, i was trying to use those 2 fields from Before script. I think we cant use those 2 varibles in rules from script variables.

before_script:

• $latest_version = git describe --tags
• $version_data = Get-Content “VERSION.txt”

#- $version_data = $latest_version

• echo $version_data
• echo $latest_version

Do we have any other way to extract those 2 variable and run the stage based on those 2 variables?

It’s hard for me to tell exactly what your .gitlab-ci.yml file looks like from your description.

If I have a CI config like this:

stages:
  - stage

workflow:
  rules:
    - if: $CI_MERGE_REQUEST_ID
      when: never
    - when: always

job:
  stage: stage
  before_script:
    - GIT_VERSION=$(git --version)
  script:
    - echo ${GIT_VERSION}

Then the output looks like this:

$ GIT_VERSION=$(git --version)
$ echo ${GIT_VERSION}
git version 2.20.1
Cleaning up project directory and file based variables
00:00
Job succeeded

Which makes me think that your problem is probably to do with the syntax of your Bash commands within your .gitlab-ci.yml.