Ruby on Rails continuously integrated with Bamboo

Since I tripped over a few things setting up Bamboo for Rails, I thought it would be good to share my approach. After my last post, someone from Atlassian thought that would be a good idea as well, so, what the heck.

Creating a Simple Rails Project

In order to demonstrate configuring a project on Bamboo, it's easiest for me just to create a simple rails project, with a model and scaffold. This'll come with tests, albeit useless ones. But if you wanted a tutorial on how to use Rails, you've come to the wrong place.

geoffrey@paraietta:~/projects$ rails bamboo-rails
create
create  app/controllers
create  app/helpers
create  app/models
...
create  log/production.log
create  log/development.log
create  log/test.log
geoffrey@paraietta:~/projects$ cd bamboo-rails/
geoffrey@paraietta:~/projects/bamboo-rails$ mysql -u root
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 8
Server version: 5.0.38-Ubuntu_0ubuntu1-log Ubuntu 7.04 distribution

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> create database `bamboo-rails_development`;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec)

mysql> create database `bamboo-rails_test`;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> quit
Bye
geoffrey@paraietta:~/projects/bamboo-rails$ script/generate model foo bar:string baz:string
exists  app/models/
exists  test/unit/
exists  test/fixtures/
create  app/models/foo.rb
create  test/unit/foo_test.rb
create  test/fixtures/foos.yml
create  db/migrate
create  db/migrate/001_create_foos.rb
geoffrey@paraietta:~/projects/bamboo-rails$ rake db:migrate
(in /mnt/home/geoffrey/projects/bamboo-rails)
== CreateFoos: migrating ======================================================
-- create_table(:foos)
-> 0.0040s
== CreateFoos: migrated (0.0041s) =============================================

geoffrey@paraietta:~/projects/bamboo-rails$ script/generate scaffold foo
exists  app/controllers/
exists  app/helpers/
create  app/views/foos
...
create  app/views/layouts/foos.rhtml
create  public/stylesheets/scaffold.css

Add the Project to Source Control

Once the project's created, it has to be somewhere that Bamboo can reach it. The usual practice is a source control system. In this case, I'm using Subversion.

geoffrey@paraietta:~/projects$ svn import bamboo-rails http://messis/svn/spikes/bamboo-rails -m "A simple Rails/Bamboo integration project."
Adding         bamboo-rails/test
Adding         bamboo-rails/test/unit
Adding         bamboo-rails/test/unit/foo_test.rb
...
Adding         bamboo-rails/public/stylesheets
Adding         bamboo-rails/public/stylesheets/scaffold.css
Adding         bamboo-rails/public/favicon.ico

Committed revision 190.

Configure Bamboo for Ruby

In order to build anything in Bamboo/Ruby, you're going to want to configure a builder in Bamboo. There may be a way to use one of the existing builders, but this is what worked for me. Just add a builder for Ruby and point it to your ruby executable.

Create a Plan for your Ruby Project

You're going to want to create a Project and Plan for your Ruby project. Bamboo projects are umbrellas for related Plans:

Plans tell Bamboo what you're trying to build, where to find the source code:

They also tell Bamboo how to build what it finds:

They also tell Bamboo what to do with the results, and whom to notify, but those steps aren't unique to Rails in any way, so I'm going to leave them out. At this point, you have a project and plan defined in Bamboo, so you can check to see if it worked:
It didn't. I didn't create the database on the build server. Once I've done that:

Et Voila

You've got a basic Ruby on Rails project building in Bamboo. This is the bare minimum setup. There's a lot of things you can add from here. In my next post, I'll cover getting Bamboo to recognize your test results and calculate coverage.