I wanted to play the field of continuous integration tools a little bit more, so I finally gave Integrity a go. Its promise of being lightweight sure was tempting.
It’s a small Sinatra app, and therefore should’ve been easy to set up using Passenger. The Integrity team recommends using nginx and Thin. Though I’m rather fond of nginx, I don’t see any point using a different setup just for my CI system.
Getting it up and running is rather straight-forward. You create your local Integrity template directory using integrity install /path. For this to work with Passenger you also need a directory public in that directory, so if you create that you can just throw the usual Passenger virtual host block into your Apache configuration, the document root pointing to the freshly created public directory, and you’re good to go. In the current master, there’s already a fix for this issue, and running integrity install will create the public directory for you.
I have some gripes with Integrity though, one of them being that configuring notifiers for projects currently seems to be broken. It’s sort of a big deal to me, because continuous integration lives from the team receiving notifications.
But otherwise, do give it a go, it’s pretty slim and pretty slick too, though it doesn’t yet have asynchronous building. It needs some sort a hook, e.g. a GitHub one to run automatically. There’s also a demo available for your viewing pleasure.
Update: The issue with notification configuration not being saved seems to be resolved in the current master. It’s not perfectly fixed, but at least now I can have Integrity notify me through Twitter. So if you need to, fetch the master, and build your own gem. Remember to rename it to ‘foca-integrity’ in the Rakefile’s Jeweler configuration, otherwise it won’t really catch on.