Building Ruby Projects with Bundler and the Bamboo Ruby Plugin

The latest release of the Ruby plugin I develop for Atlassian Bamboo now includes some new configuration options for Bundler along with a number of other additions and improvements. In this post I want to focus on the new options available in the Bundler task, and illustrate how they are used to make Ruby builds simpler. In the past with my plugin the administrator of the CI server had two options when managing the gems associated with a build:...

June 20, 2012 3 min

Tips for Bamboo Plugin Developers

Having recently developed a plugin (Ruby Rake Plugin) for Atlassian’s Bamboo continuous integration (CI) server I thought I would put together a list of tips for those looking to do the same. As there are some great documents provided by Atlassian on how to get started with plugin development I am not going to go into a lot of detail in this area, it is assumed you already messed around a bit with the Plugin SDK....

December 7, 2011 4 min

How to build server with Bamboo and Ubuntu

Recently I have been looking into setting up my own build server, having used Cruisecontrol, Hudson, Teamcity in the passed I wanted to give something new a try. With the recent release of Bamboo 3.1.1 I thought I would see what all the fuss is about. I logged onto Atlassian’s site and payed my 10 bucks, which much to my delight and respect, goes to charity. I then spun up a clean Ubuntu server running 10....

May 24, 2011 4 min