Anatol Pomozov
2006-Dec-05 14:11 UTC
[ANN] Cerberus 0.3.2 released. Now with Perforce and BJam support.
Hello, Rubyists. New version of lightweight and powerful Build Integration tool for Ruby has been released. Cerberus 0.3.2 in da game. Continuous Integration idiom is very important for Agile development and many of Rails developers prefer to develop in Agile style. So Ruby developers were waiting for a good CI tool. That is why from the early days Cerberus became very popular. Statistic shows that Cerberus used in more than 1500 projects all over the world now. Very impressive I would say. But Cerberus development does not stay on the place - Cerberus tries to be useful and bring value to its users. That is why the next 0.3.2 release appeared. Except fixing several bugs that were spotted by users, the 0.3.2 release brings 2 new and useful features. 1) BJam builder support 2) Perforce SCM support 1. BJam building tool support. http://www.boost.org/tools/build/v2/index.html My recent project http://www.abonja.nl/ is new cool Dutch video sharing service. I got a lot of enjoyment working on such kind of application because nobody has done such a thing in RoR before. During development we needed to extend Cerberus. Because except Rails part Abonja project includes desktop client written in C++ and compiled to numerous platforms. And we use BJam for building the desktop application. Previously this part of the project has home-made CI script written in Python. But this script became very complex and unmaintainable. My colleagues (yes, yes its you Dirk and Arjen!) asked me to add BJam support. Well, it is not a Ruby world, but thankfully Cerberus has easily managed this situation. Adding new builder was super easy. It taken 45 minutes and 28 lines of code. Yeah, It was do really easy! If you want to add your own builder - just add a ticket to rubyforge issue tracker http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=7016&group_id=1794&func=browse and show me how to run builder and process test results. 2. Another story related to Perforce SCM. http://www.perforce.com/ Not all of us use Subversion. Some people use other SCM in their projects. Several people ask me to add Perforce support. And I would like to announce that it was done. With new 0.3.2 release you are able to use Cerberus in couple with Perforce. What you need is to add some configuration options. Here is an example: scm: type: perforce view: //depot/someproject/somemodule/... That''s all. And again the same story as with BJam. Thankfully to the dynamic and very expressive nature of Ruby language adding new module to Cerberus was super easy. Several hours (mostly reading through Perforce docs) + 83 lines of code (with comments) and now we could use P4 with Cerberus. If like to see your favourite SCM please add issue to Project tracker http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=7016&group_id=1794&func=browse. That is all for this release. Stay on the line. Wait for a new release. Cerberus development does not finish. I hope that you find Cerberus useful. You could download or find additional info about Cerberus on official project site http://cerberus.rubyforge.org/ --anatol http://pomozov.info --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---