I'd look at a Mac Mini running TeamCity. We're using TeamCity at Envato and 
it's pretty slick. It can give you per-test details rather than just dumping 
you the build outputs, build chains, personal builds but may be overkill for 
small projects.

Otherwise there's tddium and semaphore for hosted services. 


On Wednesday, 31 October 2012 at 10:56 AM, William Madden wrote:

> Hey guys,
> 
> I need a CI server. I've been thinking about this for a little while and I'm 
> leaning towards hosting my own CI server rather than using somebody else's 
> service - primarily because I don't want to pay someone else for something I 
> can maintain and because they tend to be slow. With regard to maintaining my 
> own CI server, here are the conclusions I've come to:
> Headless servers are extremely frustrating to debug 
> 
> I want to be able to plug in a screen to set everything up, and to debug it 
> when it (inevitably) breaks
> Remote servers tend to be slow
> E.g. Amazon EC2
> Also they cost money I don't have
> 
> Maintaining my own hardware is fine, but I'm going to be travelling between 
> countries a lot in the next few months and I need to be able to take it with 
> me
> So smaller is better
> My app is pretty straightforward, a Rails server and HTML/JS frontend tested 
> with RSpec, Jasmine and Cucumber. Running the full suite of tests takes about 
> 2 minutes on my MBP.
> 
> I've been thinking about getting a mini-pc/nettop/<stupid sales term for 
> "small computer">. Anybody have any recommendations - either for small 
> portable hardware or for a hosted service that will perform adequately and 
> not cost too much?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Will 
> 
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