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copied!<p>I just went through the options here and thought I'd roll them up as of late 2011.</p> <h2><a href="https://github.com/integrity/integrity" rel="noreferrer">Integrity</a></h2> <p>After a <strong>near-death experience</strong> that left the still-linked-to <a href="http://integrityapp.com/" rel="noreferrer">website</a> with <strong>outdated information</strong> and downed the demo site, this project has a spark of life again. But the documentation hasn't moved on, and lots and lots of the <strong>steps in the tutorial are just plain broken</strong>; I had to change references to gems, build some things out of band, and then <strong>I still couldn't get it working</strong>.</p> <h2><a href="http://cruisecontrolrb.thoughtworks.com/" rel="noreferrer">Cruise Control.rb</a></h2> <p><strong>Dead simple</strong>: you just download it, run a command line to add your project (there is <strong>no UI</strong> for doing so), and run the Rails app. But there's no UI for editing your project, either, and there's <strong>no real integration with build artifacts</strong> aside from displaying links to them: you get no graphs of tests run, no trend lines, etc. I also had to adjust the <code>routes.rb</code> file to get the code linking working (the <code>resources :projects</code> line needs to move below all the other non-default routes).</p> <h2><a href="http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/" rel="noreferrer">TeamCity</a></h2> <p>This <strong>looks awesome</strong>, but the pay scale seems out of whack. 3 agents free and then when you're dependent you need to dole out hundreds of dollars. <strong>Personal Builds</strong> looks great, but <strong>don't have the budget</strong>.</p> <h2><a href="http://jenkins-ci.org/" rel="noreferrer">Jenkins</a> (née <a href="http://hudson-ci.org/" rel="noreferrer">Hudson</a>)</h2> <p>This is a Java stalwart and it is <strong>loaded up with a thousand options</strong>, so the <strong>UI is confusing</strong> and it's a <strong>chore to set up your projects</strong>. But once you set it up you get a <strong>whole lot of plugins</strong> that can pull from most anywhere, run most anything, and report most everything. The OS X Installer points Jenkins at <code>/Users/Shared/Jenkins/Home</code> but fails to create that directory or <code>chown</code> it to <code>daemon</code> (which is uses by default, and you should change to a new <code>jenkins</code> user so you can set up GitHub integration).</p> <h2>Others</h2> <p>I didn't really try these, but thought I'd mention why:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/defunkt/cijoe" rel="noreferrer">CI Joe</a> wants to own the GitHub repo more than I want it, and its creators aren't even using it; they're on Jenkins.</li> <li><a href="http://cerberus.rubyforge.org/" rel="noreferrer">Cerberus</a> seems neatly small but doesn't have a UI and doesn't automatically publish build artifacts where others can see them.</li> <li><a href="http://bigtuna.appelier.com/" rel="noreferrer">BigTuna</a> seems to be a CruiseControl.rb clone without the (already minimal) community support.</li> <li><a href="http://www.atlassian.com/software/bamboo" rel="noreferrer">Bamboo</a> looks really neat if you use JIRA and BitBucket, but we use neither. It does deploys but we already have those set up in Capistrano.</li> </ul> <h2>The Choice</h2> <p>We went with <a href="http://jenkins-ci.org/" rel="noreferrer">Jenkins</a>, but I really wish one of the lighter-weight solutions had worked out.</p>

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