ensure we run in an venv

[gadfort]

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Improved the design gallery test workflow by using an isolated Python environment during setup and execution.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The design test workflow now creates and activates .venv before wheel installation. It reactivates .venv before running gallery designs with sc-gallery.

Changes

Design test environment

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Virtual environment setup and gallery execution .github/workflows/run-designs.yml	The installation step creates and activates .venv before installing wheels. The gallery execution step activates .venv before invoking sc-gallery.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 151b4

The workflow now runs design installation and execution inside a virtual environment, with no actionable merge-blocking risk remaining beyond normal checks and review.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the main change: running gallery designs inside a Python virtual environment.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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✨ Finishing Touches

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch venv

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