Responding to my last post, Josh pointed out what should probably be obvious: It’s likely a bad idea to bundle bundler. There’s a potential for version conflicts.

For our second attempt, we’re

As a second attempt, we’re now cribbing from the continuous integration setup from the Rails project. So far, so good:

Our RAILS_ROOT/cruise_config.rb…

require 'fileutils'

Project.configure do |project|
  project.build_command = 'sudo gem update --system && ruby lib/cruise/build.rb'
end

And, the referenced lib/cruise/build.rb (the important parts)…

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'fileutils'
include FileUtils

def root_dir
    @root_dir ||= File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../..')
end

def rake(*tasks)
  tasks.each { |task| return false unless system("#{root_dir}/bin/rake", task, 'RAILS_ENV=test')}
end

build_results = {}

cd root_dir do
  build_results[:bundle] = system 'gem bundle'  # bundling here, rather than in a task (not in Rails context)
  build_results[:spec] = rake 'cruise:spec'
end

failures = build_results.select { |key, value| value == false }

if failures.empty?
  exit(0)
else
  exit(-1)
end

Thanks go to

• Josh Susser for help via email
• John Pignata for suggesting we look at the Rails project
• Rails team for the reference scripts

More comments and suggestions are encouraged.