makeci

Lightweight Make-based continuous integration, written in Haskell using Spock.

Assumptions

• Your code is hosted on GitHub

• You repository has a Makefile in its root directory with the rules cibuild and citest.

Install

• Install the Haskell Platform
• git clone https://github.com/openbrainsrc/makeci.git
• cabal install

Configuration

You need to tell makeci which repositories you want to build in the configuration file. This file has one line per repository, in the format {GitHub username}/{repository name}. Example:

glutamate/probably-base
glutamate/matio
glutamate/baysig-platform
openbrainsrc/debcd

You then run makeci (after you have made sure that wherever cabal puts your binaries is in your PATH) with

makeci {configuration_file}

if makeci is invoked with no arguments, it will look for a configuration file in /etc/makeci-repos.

Makeci will try to clone these repositories with

git clone git@github.com:{user_name}/{repository_name}.git

Thus, you will need to have SSH keys in place to access GitHub in this way.

There is an example upstart configuration file in upstart/ if you want to run Makeci as a service under Ubuntu.

Build configuration

Makeci will try to build you repositories by running

make cibuild && make citest

if the output contains a line that starts with file:// then makeci will splice the contents of that file into your job output.

GitHub webhook

Set this as your webhook in GitHub:

http://{server_url}:3001/github-webhook/{repository_name}

But I am not using Make as a build system!

Great, just create a Makefile to invoke whichever build system you are using.

For instance, here is an example Makefile for a Cabal-based project:

cibuild:
	cabal sandbox init
	cabal install --enable-tests

citest: