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diff --git a/ci/ci_setup_notes.txt b/ci/ci_setup_notes.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..86df33c443 --- /dev/null +++ b/ci/ci_setup_notes.txt @@ -0,0 +1,120 @@ +# Rails Continuous Integration Server Setup Notes +# This procedure was used to set up http://ci.rubyonrails.org on Ubuntu 8.04 +# It can be used as a guideline for setting up your own CI server against your local rails branches + +* Set up ci user: +# log in as root +$ adduser ci +enter user info and password +$ visudo +# give ci user same sudo rights as root + +* Disable root login: +# log in as ci +$ sudo vi /etc/shadow +# overwrite and disable encrypted root password to disable root login: +root:*:14001:0:99999:7::: + +* Change Hostname: +$ sudo vi /etc/hostname +change to 'ci' +$ sudo vi /etc/hosts +replace old hostname with 'ci' +# reboot to use new hostname (and test reboot) +$ sudo shutdown -r now + +* Update aptitude: +$ sudo aptitude update + +* Use cinabox to perform rest of ruby/ccrb setup: +* http://github.com/thewoolleyman/cinabox/tree/master/README.txt + +# This is not yet properly supported by RubyGems... +# * Configure RubyGems to not require root access for gem installation +# $ vi ~/.profile +# # add this line at bottom: +# PATH="$HOME/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin:$PATH" +# $ sudo vi /etc/init.d/cruise +# # edit the start_cruise line to source CRUISE_USER/.profile: +# start_cruise "cd #{CRUISE_HOME} && source /home/#{CRUISE_USER}/.profile && ./cruise start -d" +# $ vi ~/.gemrc +# # add these lines: +# --- +# gemhome: /home/ci/.gem/ruby/1.8 +# gempath: +# - /home/ci/.gem/ruby/1.8 + +* If you did not configure no-root-gem installation via ~/.gemrc as shown above, then allow no-password sudo for gem installation: +$ sudo visudo +# add this line to bottom: +ci ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/geminstaller, /usr/local/bin/ruby, /usr/local/bin/gem + +* Start ccrb via init script and check for default homepage at port 3333 + +* Install/setup nginx: +$ sudo aptitude install nginx +$ sudo vi /etc/nginx/sites-available/default +# comment two lines and add one to proxy to ccrb: +# root /var/www/nginx-default; +# index index.html index.htm; + proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3333; +$ sudo /etc/init.d/nginx start + +* Add project to cruise (It will still fail until everything is set up): +$ cd ~/ccrb +$ ./cruise add rails -s git -r git://github.com/rails/rails.git # or the URI of your branch + +* Copy and configure cruise site config file: +$ cp ~/.cruise/projects/rails/work/ci/site_config.rb ~/.cruise/site_config.rb +# Edit ~/.cruise/site_config.rb as desired, for example: +ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = { + :address => "localhost", + :domain => "ci.yourdomain.com", +} +Configuration.dashboard_refresh_interval = 60.seconds +Configuration.dashboard_url = 'http://ci.yourdomain.com/' +Configuration.serialize_builds = true +Configuration.serialized_build_timeout = 1.hours +BuildReaper.number_of_builds_to_keep = 100 + +* Copy and configure cruise project config file +$ cp ~/.cruise/projects/rails/work/ci/cruise_config.rb ~/.cruise/projects/rails +$ vi ~/.cruise/projects/rails/cruise_config.rb: +# Edit ~/.cruise/projects/rails/cruise_config.rb as desired, for example: +Project.configure do |project| + project.build_command = 'ruby ci/ci_build.rb' + project.email_notifier.emails = ['recipient@yourdomain.com'] + project.email_notifier.from = 'sender@yourdomain.com' +end + +* Set up mysql +$ sudo aptitude install mysql-server-5.0 libmysqlclient-dev +# no password for mysql root user + +* setup sqlite +$ sudo aptitude install sqlite sqlite3 libsqlite-dev libsqlite3-dev +# Note: there's some installation bugs with sqlite3-ruby 1.2.2 gem file permissions: +# http://www.icoretech.org/2008/07/06/no-such-file-to-load-sqlite3-database +# cd /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1.2.2 && sudo find . -perm 0662 -exec chmod 664 {} \; + +* setup postgres +$ sudo aptitude install postgresql postgresql-server-dev-8.3 +$ sudo su - postgres -c 'createuser -s ci' + +* Install and run GemInstaller to get all dependency gems +$ sudo gem install geminstaller +$ cd ~/.cruise/projects/rails/work +$ sudo geminstaller --config=ci/geminstaller.yml # turn up debugging with these options: --geminstaller-output=all --rubygems-output=all + +* Create ActiveRecord test databases for mysql +$ mysql -uroot -e 'grant all on *.* to rails@localhost;' +$ mysql -urails -e 'create database activerecord_unittest;' +$ mysql -urails -e 'create database activerecord_unittest2;' + +* Create ActiveRecord test databases for postgres +# cd to rails activerecord dir +$ rake postgresql:build_databases + +* Reboot and make sure everything is working +$ sudo shutdown -r now +$ http://ci.yourdomain.com
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