I wonder how long it would usually take for:
- Professional
- Average
- Beginner
to setup and configure CI for a new project?
I wonder how long it would usually take for: Professional Average Beginner to setup
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I wonder how long it would usually take for:
to setup and configure CI for a new project?
I have never set up CI before, which puts me squarely in your ‘Beginner’ category. Your question nudged me to try and setup a CI system for my projects; something which I’ve always avoided, because I thought it would cost me a lot of effort and time.
It took me all of 20 minutes.
I used a fantastic project called CInABox (Continuous Integration in a Box). It consists of two simple scripts which download and compile Ruby and download, install and configure CruiseControl.rb for Ubuntu 8.04.
In just 20 minutes, I downloaded Ubuntu JeOS 8.04, configured a VirtualBox VM, installed Ubuntu in that VM, setup networking, installed Ruby, installed CruiseControl.rb, added my first project to CC.rb and watched the light go green! The most time was actually spent downloading Ubuntu, downloading Ruby and installing Ubuntu. The actual CI setup took less than 5 minutes.
Don’t let the name fool you: CC.rb is written in Ruby, but you can build anything with it. In the default configuration, it assumes that you are using
raketo build your project, but by setting just one configuration option, you can just as well use a shell script.