Cruisecontrolrb users - Aug 2008 - Cinabox: Continuous Integration - in a Box!

Hi,

Here''s a project I made that will hopefully make it easier for people
to adopt CCRB:

http://github.com/thewoolleyman/cinabox/tree/master/README.txt

There''s also a screencast:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.pivotallabs.com/99/original/cinabox_screencast.mov

...and blog post:
http://pivots.pivotallabs.com/users/chad/blog/articles/471-continuous-integration-in-a-box-exploring-tsttcpw

Comments welcome...

Thanks,
-- Chad

Just a suggestion: do you think it''s valuable to install CC.rb and
RubyWorks production stack (plus infrastructures such as SVN) in a box
and make it a virtual machine, just like Buildix?

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Chad Woolley <thewoolleyman at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here''s a project I made that will hopefully make it easier for
people
> to adopt CCRB:
>
> http://github.com/thewoolleyman/cinabox/tree/master/README.txt
>
> There''s also a screencast:
>
http://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.pivotallabs.com/99/original/cinabox_screencast.mov
>
> ...and blog post:
>
http://pivots.pivotallabs.com/users/chad/blog/articles/471-continuous-integration-in-a-box-exploring-tsttcpw
>
> Comments welcome...
>
> Thanks,
> -- Chad
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On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Jeff Xiong <gigix1980 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Just a suggestion: do you think it''s valuable to install CC.rb and
> RubyWorks production stack (plus infrastructures such as SVN) in a box
> and make it a virtual machine, just like Buildix?
Thanks for the response Jeff.

First, I don''t want to do anything with static VM images like Buildix.
 That''s too hard to maintain, as least for a non-employer-subsidized
OSS project like Cinabox.  I''ve maintained my share of VM Images, and
I''d prefer to stab myself in the eye with a fork over doing that
long-term.

Instead, the idea behind Cinabox is to start with a known environment
(I picked Ubuntu 8.04 and MRI), and have a couple of scripts which do
everything else for you.  The benefit of this approach is that you can
re-run them in the future to update things.  For example, cinabox''s
setup_ci.rb will always update to the latest ccrb, and will re-install
all other packages if you pass --force.

As for the RubyWorks stack, I see that as just another environment
(RHEL/CentOS/JRuby) to target in addition to Ubuntu/MRI.  I''m
envisioning an "alternate_environments" subdirectory which will
contain subdirectories scripts specific to these environments - such
as a CentOS-JRuby subdir with a specific bootstrap_jruby.sh and
setup_ci.rb.  Or even RubyWorks- or Buildix-specific environments.

-- Chad