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Mustacci

Mustacci is a simple, biased continuous integration server.

How does it work?

Mustacci has many small parts. Here is the general gist of it:

1. The listener is a small Sinatra app that receives push notification from Github.
2. The listener sends the payload via ZeroMQ to the worker.
3. The worker stores the payload and starts the runner.
4. The runner runs your tests.
5. Meanwhile, all output is streamed to your browser.
6. You get to write a script that will notify you in the way you see fit.

It's not finished yet. Feel free to help us out, by contacting us.

Why Mustacci?

We were fed up with Jenkins and we couldn't wait for Travis Pro. We're not trying to compete with Travis, we believe it's an awesome service, run by awesome people, and getting more awesome everyday. But we wanted something quick and local, so we rolled our own. Also: hacking on a CI server is a lot of fun! It turned out it wasn't as simple as we thought, but definitely fun.

Requirements

• Ruby 1.9.3
• ZeroMQ
• CouchDB

Installation

Install the gem:

gem install mustacci

And run the installer to generate the configuration files. You'll have to give it a directory where to put the configuration files, e.g.:

mustacci install ~/Mustacci

You'll get these files:

• mustacci.rb, where you do all of your configurations.
• Gemfile, where you can add dependencies via Bundler
• Procfile, where you can specify the processes to run, using Foreman

Have a look through those file and configure as needed/wanted.

When you've configured it to your liking, setup the database:

mustacci setup

Then you can start Mustacci:

foreman start

The build process

You are responsible for keeping a script that does your build inside your repository. You need to create an executable file called .mustacci in the root of your repository. This file needs to do pretty much everything on its own: install dependencies, create and migrate the database, etc.

The .mustacci file must be executable and don't forget the hashbang at the top.

For example:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -e
export RAILS_ENV=test
gem install bundler
bundle install
rake db:create
rake db:migrate
rspec -fp

If no .mustacci is found, it will try to run rake. No guarantees though.

Development

After cloning, run bundle install, then install the application with the --development option:

bundle exec mustacci install dev --development

There is a dummy github payload you can use to test the github listener:

curl -d "payload=`cat test/payload.json`" http://localhost:8081/github