Assi3 - WebHook Proxy for Assembla

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Introduction

Webhook is standard of communicating within different web services. Its super simple and You can get more details from here - http://wiki.webhooks.org/w/page/13385124/FrontPage

The problem is assembla.com does not have web hook capability yet. But we need that.

What we actually need?

• Some one in the team push some code base to assembla
• In that event assembla should curl and url (which is to our jenkins)
• Then jenkins can start the build and deploy

How we fix this

• Assembla provides an RSS feed. Eg: - https://www.assembla.com/spaces/rngncut/stream.rss
• We need to authenticate RSS feed via basicAuth (ask me for passwords)
• We need an application to poll this rss
• Once a new post arise we need to trigger the url configured

How you do

• Create a NodeJS library (./lib/assemblaRss.js) to poll assembla rss and trigger when new content occured
• Define an JSON based configuration file (./conf/config.json) to load RSS to poll and trigger urls when new posts(commits) arise
• We should be able to trigger more than one URL for an post (commit)
• Glue those two (config file and the library) (./start.js)

Quality

Need Testing and 100% code coverage for this codebase

• Install Nodeunit from here - https://github.com/arunoda/nodeunit - (DO NOT NPM INSTALL)
• Use this document to get howto use nodeunit for code-coverage Code Coverage Support added caolan/nodeunit#74
• Use Nodemock - https://github.com/arunoda/nodemock (if required)
• Use horaa - https://github.com/arunoda/horaa (if required)