Rails jenkins

Start by setting up a container/VM with ubuntu 12 LTS

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common python-software-properties

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-set-default echo JAVA_HOME=“/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle”  | sudo tee /etc/environment source /etc/environment wget -q -O - http://pkg.jenkins-ci.org/debian/jenkins-ci.org.key | sudo apt-key add - echo deb http://pkg.jenkins-ci.org/debian binary/ | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jenkins.list sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install jenkins

sudo apt-get install git

sudo apt-get install autoconf bison build-essential libssl-dev libyaml-dev libreadline6 libreadline6-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev imagemagick libmagickcore-dev libmagickwand-dev sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev libxml2-dev unzip sudo apt-get install redis-server postgresql-9.1 libpq-dev postgresql-contrib

wget -qO- https://deb.nodesource.com/setup\_6.x | sudo bash - sudo apt-get install -y nodejs npm install -g phantomjs-prebuilt

sudo su - jenkins

This step with rbenv maybe unnecessary since the jenkins plugins does the same thing

git clone https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv echo ‘export PATH=“$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH”’ >> ~/.bashrc echo ‘eval ”$(rbenv init -)“’ >> ~/.bashrc exec $SHELL

git clone https://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build

#install ruby version if not using rbenv plugin rbenv install 2.3.1

#Edit this to match github git config —global user.name “John Doe” git config —global user.email johndoe@example.com

ssh-keygen and upload to github as required.

On the Jenkins UI install plugins

• git
• github
• rbenv
• Rake
• envInjector plugin to populate .envrc equivalent

follow these guides here for project setup

http://www.jianshu.com/p/0c9cbbd6d787 -RVM specific

http://www.webascender.com/Blog/ID/522/Setting-up-Jenkins-for-GitHub-Rails-Rspec RBENV

Postgres related

Configure postgres pg_hba.conf to match your database.yml. Contrary to popular belief you dont need to copy any database config

Using 9.5+ version

sudo sh -c ‘echo “deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ `lsb_release -cs`-pgdg main” >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list’

wget -q https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc -O - | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-get update 

sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib

Despite all the guides, much of Rails on Jenkins is trial and error. Setting up a new project is relatively easy as per the linked guides but YMMV.

In addition I have had to edit code to make it Jenkins friendly and enabling JUnit reports in rails via Gems is very useful.

Note that installing a single instance of postgres on the Jenkins master is alright for small local developments but not useful for large parallel builds as you are essentially on one DB. I hope this is good enough for anyone to get started and help improve upon the setup.

Possible Further improvements: Use containers for postgres, build vm Use EC2 or Azure Vm plugins use Jenkins Pipeline