How do I run a specific action?

[huseyin-hamilton-cko]

I have never used act before so I could be using it incorrectly.

I just want to test the run of one action in a branch which isn't merged to "main" yet.

On my branch locally, I run something like:
act -v --defaultbranch branch-name -j testing-build.yml

The last line it outputs is:

DEBU[0000] Planning job: testing-build.yml

And then does nothing. Any help/ideas about what I should be doing?

[catthehacker]

you didn't specify correct event that triggers the workflow