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SFRubyNewby
SFRubyNewby

Reputation: 71

Continuous Integration Server for Heroku RoR app

We need CI on Heroku for our RoR app.  

We want to use an add-on. I don't mind paying a few bucks to avoid complexity / distraction.

I see its basically Railsonfire vs. Tddium

What are the factors that we should consider in choosing to use one vs. the other?

A similar question was asked at the link below, but it appears that this was before the add-ons above were created. Proper continuous integration and continuous deployment with Git and Heroku

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1428

Answers (2)

Terra Kestrel
Terra Kestrel

Reputation: 20334

One consideration I'd give you to… uh… consider is support. I don't know anything about the Tddium team, but I do know that a couple months ago I tried Rails On Fire was blown away by the support. I asked some crazy questions (I do crazy things) and Florian responded in email and on Twitter right away with both help and suggestions.

Then, when I decided not to use the service because it couldn't support one edge-case feature, he implemented the feature! I hadn't been using it for a couple weeks and he wrote back to me personally to say "Hey, we finally got that feature you thought would be helpful."

I've used Hudson/Jenkins for years and know what you mean about complexity. But I also think that having someone on the other end is pretty key, and the RailsOnFire team, for now at least, do that quite well.

Upvotes: 1

Paul Biggar
Paul Biggar

Reputation: 28769

Another option is CircleCi, which makes it incredibly easy, though it isn't yet in the Heroku add-on marketplace.

I personally believe speed is the major consideration. The speed at which your team moves is tied to how quickly you can get notifications, and a platform optimized for speed is going to make a major difference.

In addition, on slow platforms, tests may fail randomly (for example, Cucumber might fail if a button doesn't appear in 3 seconds, which may not happen soon enough on a slow platform).

I'm a founder of CircleCi, and we make an incredibly fast CI solution (faster than both services you mentioned). It's really easy to set up (one-click), though it's not in the Heroku marketplace (yet).

Upvotes: 6

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