From: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@...>
Date: 2006-07-16T16:11:47+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Cerberus Continuous Integration tool released

Cerberus is a Continuous Integration (CI) software. Cerberus could be 
periodically run from scheduler and check if application tests are 
broken. If it happens then Cerberus will send notification to 
developers. Cerberus perfectly works both on Windows and *nix platforms.

For more CI theory read this document from Martin Fowler
http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html.

Requirements:
  ruby - 1.8.2 or higher
  rake - 0.7 or higher
  svn client - 1.2 or higher

What 'Cerberus' name means?
Quote from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus)

Cerberus or Kerberos (Kerberos, demon of the pit), was the hound of 
Hades-a monstrous three-headed dog (sometimes said to have 50 or 100 
heads) with a snake for a tail and innumerable snake heads on his back.
He guarded the gate to Hades (the Greek underworld) and ensured that the 
dead could not leave and the living could not enter. His brother was 
Orthrus. He is the offspring of Echidna and Typhon.


So Cerberus will guard your tests and not allow your project to go to 
the world of dead.

To use Cerberus it is very easy. First install it. Easiest way to do it 
through RubyGems package manager.

'gem install cerberus'

or get Cerberus distribution package right from download page 
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=1794

then you need to add project that will be watched by Cerberus. Do it by

cerberus add (DIR|SVN_URL) APPLICATION_NAME=some_app 
RECIPIENTS=dev1@project.com,dev2@project.com

as second parameter you could pass URL to subversion repository or 
directory with working SVN folder.

Go to ~./cerberus and edit config.yml file (only once after installing 
Cerberus). Enter your configuration options here like email server, 
password, user_name and other options. See ActiveMailer description - 
Cerberus uses it as notification layer. My config file looks like this

mail:
  address: mail.somesever.com
  user_name: anatol
  password: anatol

Also check ~/.cerberus/config/<APPLICATION_NAME>.yml and make sure that 
you have right options.

And then run Cerberus

cerberus build APPLICATION_NAME    #Run project

It will check out latest sources and run tests for your application. If 
tests are broken - recipients will receive notifications.

But of course better run Cerberus automatically from Cron. Run Cerberus 
for project each 10 minutes would be ok.

Well, thats all. If you have any questions, proposals - just let me 
know.

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