fix: avoid unnecessary creation of .ansible folders

Related: AAP-60425
Fixes: #4533

Author: ssbarnea

.gitignore

@@ -79,4 +79,10 @@ test/local-content
 test/schemas/node_modules
 node_modules
 .direnv
-.ansible
+
+# ignore it only at repository root as we want to discover if these are
+# created accidentally in other folders.
+/.ansible
+# used during testing as presence of examples/.config/ansible-lint.yml makes
+# linter determine that project root is /examples
+/examples/.ansible

examples/playbooks/.ansible-lint-only-builtins-allow

@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 # yaml-language-server: $schema=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible-lint/main/src/ansiblelint/schemas/ansible-lint-config.json
 # Mock modules or roles in order to pass ansible-playbook --syntax-check
+project_dir: ../..
 mock_modules:
   - fake_namespace.fake_collection.fake_module
+  - zuul_return
 
 only_builtins_allow_collections:
   - fake_namespace.fake_collection

src/ansiblelint/app.py

@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ def __init__(self, options: Options):
 
         # Without require_module, our _set_collections_basedir may fail
         self.runtime = Runtime(
+            project_dir=Path(options.project_dir),
             isolated=True,
             require_module=True,
             verbosity=options.verbosity,

src/ansiblelint/rules/only_builtins.py

@@ -90,6 +90,8 @@ def test_only_builtins_allow() -> None:
         result = run_ansible_lint(
             f"--config-file={conf_path}",
             "--strict",
+            "--offline",
+            "--nocolor",
             "--warn-list=",
             "--enable-list",
             "only-builtins",

test/test_main.py

@@ -183,24 +183,23 @@ def test_list_tags() -> None:
             assert isinstance(item, str)
 
 
-def test_ro_venv() -> None:
+def test_ro_venv(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
     """Tests behavior when the virtual environment is read-only."""
     tox_work_dir = os.environ.get("TOX_WORK_DIR", ".tox")
     venv_path = f"{tox_work_dir}/ro"
-    prerelease_flag = "" if sys.version_info < (3, 14) else "--pre "
     commands = [
         f"mkdir -p {venv_path}",
         f"chmod -R a+w {venv_path}",
         f"rm -rf {venv_path}",
-        f"python -m venv --symlinks {venv_path}",
-        f"{venv_path}/bin/python -m pip install {prerelease_flag}-q -e .",
+        f"uv venv --seed --no-project {venv_path}",
+        f"VIRTUAL_ENV={venv_path} uv pip install -q -e .",
         f"chmod -R a-w {venv_path}",
         # running with a ro venv and default cwd
         f"{venv_path}/bin/ansible-lint --version",
         # running from a read-only cwd:
         f"cd / && {abspath(venv_path)}/bin/ansible-lint --version",  # noqa: PTH100
         # running with a ro venv and a custom project path in forced non-online mode, so it will need to install requirements
-        f"{venv_path}/bin/ansible-lint -vv --no-offline --project-dir ./examples/reqs_v2/ ./examples/reqs_v2/",
+        f"{venv_path}/bin/ansible-lint -vv --nocolor --no-offline --project-dir {tmp_path.as_posix()} ./examples/reqs_v2/",
     ]
     for cmd in commands:
         result = subprocess.run(

test/test_utils.py

@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@
 
 import pytest
 from ansible.utils.sentinel import Sentinel
-from ansible_compat.runtime import Runtime
 from packaging.version import Version
 
 from ansiblelint import cli, constants, utils
@@ -54,8 +53,6 @@
 
     from ansiblelint.rules import RulesCollection
 
-runtime = Runtime(require_module=True)
-
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     ("string", "expected_args", "expected_kwargs"),