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CruiseControl is a framework for a continuous build process. It includes, but is not limited to, plugins for email notification, Ant, and various source control tools. A web interface is provided to view the details of the current and previous builds.

• CruiseControl website

Prerequisites:

You have to have the following installed:

• Java 1.5
• Ant 1.6.5 or later
• Maven 1.0.2
• Subversion 1.3.x or 1.4.x

Getting the CruiseControl source code:

• http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/download.html
  • I chose v2.6 (Jan. 11, 2007)cruisecontrol-src-2.6.zip

Unpack the downloaded cruisecontrol source. I place it in ~/local/

• cd ~/local
• unzip cruisecontrol-src-2.6.zip

Making sure ant has access to junit.jar

• mdkir -p ~/.ant/lib

Download junit from here:

• http://www.junit.org/index.htm
  • wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/junit/junit4.1.zip

After unzipping the file, locate junit-4.1.jar and copy it to:

• ~/.ant/lib

Now, go to the curiscontrol directory and build it:

• cd ~/local/cruisecontrol-2.6/
• ant

The build will take a couple of minutes. In order to test the build, execute:

• java -jar ~/local/cruisecontrol-2.6/main/dist/cruisecontrol-launcher.jar
• It should show a bunch of usage messages

Setting up and running the Build Loop

• First we need to setup the work directories
• mkdir -p ~/local/work/cruise
• cd ~/local/work/cruise
• mkdir checkout
• mkdir logs
• mkdir artifacts

Checking out Sakai

• cd ~/local/work/checkout
• svn co https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/sakai/branches/sakai_2-3-x
• Note: For UCD, we would checkout the following: https://mware.ucdavis.edu/svn/ucd-sakai/sakai/branches/sakai_2-3-x

Create a Delegating Build Script

• Create an ant script called "build-sakai_2-3-x.xml in ~/local/work

  Code Block

  <!-- Delegating build script, used by cruisecontrol to build sakai_2-3-x. Note that the basedir is set to the checked out project --> <project name="build-sakai_2-3-x" default="build" basedir="checkout/sakai_2-3-x"> <target name="build"> <!-- Get the latest from CVS --> <cvs command="up -d -P"/> <!-- Call the target that does everything --> <ant antfile="build.xml" target="build-everything"/> </target> </project>