Continuous Integration for Ruby on Rails? [closed]

Answer 1

How about CruiseControl.rb?

Same crowd that did CruiseControl (thoughtworks) and written in Ruby. Very easy to use Rake to integrate your other tools, and can use the ruby-growl gem for your notifications.

Answer 2

Circle is an advanced CI service for Rails (and other web apps). From your list, it supports the following:

• Git and Test::Unit integration (also RSpec, Cucumber, Jasmine, Konacha integrations, and supports arbitrary extra test commands)
• Integration with Rake and/or Capistrano (uses Rake to run commands and set up DBs, support continuous deployment using Capistrano or Heroku, or anything really)
• A web interface showing the status of the build
• Email notification of failed builds.
• Desktop notification (through CCMenu/CCTray)
• REST API for build statuses
• Plugin framework for running other code analysis tools and reporting results in the UI (we can run arbitrary commands and support including their status as part of the build)

Joel and I spent a while chatting about this on the Stackoverflow podcast - check it out!

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(edit) Disclaimer: Paul Biggar founded Circle as he states in his Stackoverflow profile

Answer 3

You might also want to consider Hudson. It is designed for use with Java projects although there is a great selection of plug-ins available including support for Ruby and Rake. It has a very useful web interface and supports email notifications as well as many others (like twitter, or giant bear lamps).

The community is also very active and there have been several articles on hooking up Hudson with Selenium which you might be helpful for testing Rails applications on the browser side.

Another one look at is Team City which is free for small projects and teams (including commercial). I really like Team City and have used it before for other projects but currently we're using Mercurial for source control and Team City's support was a little too beta when we were considering it.

I switched from CruiseControl.net to Team City and was absolutely shocked at the improvement. I'm partial to Hudson though because of its similar feature set and very active community.

Answer 4

You should consider looking at CloudMunch as well. This provides a polyglot platform to allow you to have different languages as part of your codebase, with rich set of build metadata.