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Presenting BigTuna - continuous integration software

20 points by antekpiechnik 16y ago

sghael 16y ago
definitely agree that the state of CI projects for Ruby/Rails is not great. I was using CruiseControl.rb on Rails 2.x with success, but getting it to play well when moving to Bundler/RVM was way more difficult than it should have been. I always thought Integrity showed promise, but then you have this: http://builder.integrityapp.com/integrity http://builder.integrityapp.com/integrity It's Integrity watching itself, and the last build from Jun 26th has failed. That doesn't inspire confidence. So for now, I'm sticking with Hudson. It is a bit heavier, but it's available as a package on Ubuntu, so installing and maintaining is cake. I also like that fact that its flexible to do builds for any platform/codebase, which lets me consolidate all CI into one CI app.
- bradgessler 16y ago
  I've had no luck with any Ruby CI solutions. We use Hudson (Java) and it works great.
  - antekpiechnik 16y ago
    Be sure to try BigTuna. We had the same issue ;)
    - sghael 16y ago
      Thanks for the project! Will definitely try it out soon.
- lightson 16y ago
  Yeah, I recently wasted a good day on trying to get Integrity "running" .. ended up using Hudson :)
patio11 16y ago
I'm going to try this after releasing Appointment Reminder. For solo Rails developers who want the automation but don't want to deal with big icky configuration, can I recommend autotest? http://ph7spot.com/musings/getting-started-with-autotest http://ph7spot.com/musings/getting-started-with-autotest I have mine configured to pop a little window on Ubuntu any time a change causes a test to fail. It is quite motivational and has saved my bacon many, many times these last few weeks. It isn't really great for using for e.g. running a suite of expensive Selenium tests frequently, but it cranks out simple unit, functional, and API tests.
- jherdman 16y ago
  Autotest is not CI. A key component of a good CI setup is having a "pure" system that builds your application code. The purpose of this is to ensure that a machine, other than your own, can actually build your software. This is to reveal hidden dependencies, or sometimes differences between your dev box and the production environment.
antekpiechnik 16y ago
You can now see a demo of BigTuna testing itself using the github repo right here: http://builder.bigtuna.appelier.com/ http://builder.bigtuna.appelier.com/
vlod 16y ago
any links to a running demo or something? maybe some screenshots would suffice.
- antekpiechnik 16y ago
  Demo is up! http://builder.bigtuna.appelier.com/ http://builder.bigtuna.appelier.com/
  - vlod 16y ago
    thanks for the quick response. good job.. looks good! :) will definitely check it out.
- antekpiechnik 16y ago
  Hey, we just uploaded some screenshots - http://bigtuna.appelier.com/screenshots.html http://bigtuna.appelier.com/screenshots.html Demo will come soon.

20 points by antekpiechnik 16y ago

definitely agree that the state of CI projects for Ruby/Rails is not great. I was using CruiseControl.rb on Rails 2.x with success, but getting it to play well when moving to Bundler/RVM was way more difficult than it should have been. I always thought Integrity showed promise, but then you have this: http://builder.integrityapp.com/integrity http://builder.integrityapp.com/integrity It's Integrity watching itself, and the last build from Jun 26th has failed. That doesn't inspire confidence. So for now, I'm sticking with Hudson. It is a bit heavier, but it's available as a package on Ubuntu, so installing and maintaining is cake. I also like that fact that its flexible to do builds for any platform/codebase, which lets me consolidate all CI into one CI app.

bradgessler 16y ago
I've had no luck with any Ruby CI solutions. We use Hudson (Java) and it works great.
- antekpiechnik 16y ago
  Be sure to try BigTuna. We had the same issue ;)
  - sghael 16y ago
    Thanks for the project! Will definitely try it out soon.
lightson 16y ago
Yeah, I recently wasted a good day on trying to get Integrity "running" .. ended up using Hudson :)

patio11 16y ago

I'm going to try this after releasing Appointment Reminder. For solo Rails developers who want the automation but don't want to deal with big icky configuration, can I recommend autotest? http://ph7spot.com/musings/getting-started-with-autotest http://ph7spot.com/musings/getting-started-with-autotest I have mine configured to pop a little window on Ubuntu any time a change causes a test to fail. It is quite motivational and has saved my bacon many, many times these last few weeks. It isn't really great for using for e.g. running a suite of expensive Selenium tests frequently, but it cranks out simple unit, functional, and API tests.

jherdman 16y ago
Autotest is not CI. A key component of a good CI setup is having a "pure" system that builds your application code. The purpose of this is to ensure that a machine, other than your own, can actually build your software. This is to reveal hidden dependencies, or sometimes differences between your dev box and the production environment.

antekpiechnik 16y ago

You can now see a demo of BigTuna testing itself using the github repo right here: http://builder.bigtuna.appelier.com/ http://builder.bigtuna.appelier.com/

vlod 16y ago

any links to a running demo or something? maybe some screenshots would suffice.

antekpiechnik 16y ago
Demo is up! http://builder.bigtuna.appelier.com/ http://builder.bigtuna.appelier.com/
- vlod 16y ago
  thanks for the quick response. good job.. looks good! :) will definitely check it out.
antekpiechnik 16y ago
Hey, we just uploaded some screenshots - http://bigtuna.appelier.com/screenshots.html http://bigtuna.appelier.com/screenshots.html Demo will come soon.