Continuous Integration for Rails Just Got A Whole Lot Easier

If you already have a continuous integration (ie build) server (such as Pulse, Bamboo, Hudson, or even the venerable old CruiseControl) and you’ve been trying to include some of your Rails applications then your life just got a whole lot easier.

Enter CI::Reporter. To quote the documentation:

…an add-on to Test::Unit and RSpec that allows you to generate XML reports of your test and/or spec runs. The resulting files can be read by a continuous integration system that understands Ant‘s JUnit report XML format, thus allowing your CI system to track test/spec successes and failures.

So, I simply installed the gem on the build-server and the plugin into my plugins project, configured the build to slurp up the generated XML files and voila! I now get build notifications letting me know how many tests passed and which ones failed.

Thanks Nick!