What happened to stdout on CI?

Thursday, February 14, 2013

We were struggling for a bit yesterday trying to figure out why the few puts statements in our tests weren’t being displayed in Jenkins’ console output.

It turns out the ci_reporter gem that we were using (so that Jenkins could parse our test results) swallows stdout and stderr by default — unless you set the CI_CAPTURE environment variable to the string "off", like it tells you to do in the readme.

That was a confusing default setting. Since my pair and I weren’t involved in setting up Jenkins, and we didn’t install the ci_reporter gem, we assumed something was misconfigured in Jenkins before we started digging through the code.

Hopefully this saves someone else some time!

Standup 1/9/2012

Glenn Jahnke

Monday, January 9, 2012

Helps

CCMenu + Hudson w/o Basic Auth

“Has anyone figured out how to use CCMenu with Hudson and not have Basic Auth?”

Hudson has its own authorization mechanism, unlike Basic Auth, so it can’t be used with nice desktop tools like CCMenu which shows the red/green square in your system tray.

Consider using Jenkins.

Using Symlinks with Dropbox

Using the Linux Dropbox client seems to allow symlinks to be uploaded, but they will not behave as expect anywhere else. Someone was trying to have a “latest” folder point to the latest versioned folder.

The recommendation was just to have two copies of the files as a workaround.

Interestings

Rails Bridge Outreach for Women Workshop has space

Looking to learn Rails? There’s a great meetup to get you up and running. As of this writing there is still space available. Come check the event out.

Yammer Javascript Meetup on Tuesday

Yammer will be hosting a Javascript meetup, expect the usual snacks and beer, and good talks about our favorite client-side language.

Is your XML foo savvy?

Glenn Jahnke

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Helps

“How do you change the address and port that Solr is running on?”

Somewhere in the server.xml file was suggested, however that didn’t seem to work. The workaround was using IP Tables.

Interestings

as_json (with options) seems to always be called with an explicit nil argument from to_json under Rails 3. Some people just use as_json explicitly, or pass an explicit empty hash as the arg to get around this oddity.
Jenkins now supports Ruby plugins.
Support Movember! Pivotal has raised quite a bit of money and you can too.

Standup 5/27/2011 Hack For Change, Guiderails goes public, Jenkins & Jasmine jems

Phil Goodwin

Friday, May 27, 2011

Helps

*Is there a way to change the URL that CCRB pulls from when it builds?

“Use Jenkins” (we will be standardizing on Jenkins in the near future anyway)

Apparently the answer has been found successfully in the past by grepping through the Ruby portion of the CCRB source.

Interesting

Hack For Change, sponsored by Change.org is inviting engineers and designers to spend 24 hours to build a web or mobile app that can help advance positive change. Top-rated hacks will be awarded a total of $10,000 to ensure their continued success and will gain recognition through widespread media coverage and promotion. http://hackforchange.com
Guiderails: Pivotal’s Rails 3 Templates, has been made publicly available on GitHub. https://github.com/pivotal/guiderails
While there is not consensus on how hash tags in URLs that are being redirected should be handled, Safari stands apart from most other modern browsers by throwing them away entirely.
When configuring a new project for Jenkins, remember to specify the branch to build, otherwise Jenkins will try to pull and build all branches from the repo.
Jasmine has a bug in its “runs and waits for” construct that causes it to ignore changes to the defaults for the timer and message on the “waits for” block.