Any reason you wouldn't just run it in the background on your MBP? I often have TeamCity running in the background (depending on project) and rarely even notice it's there ... on last project I even had it running in the background on my horribly underpowered Mac Mini (4gb) for a team of 5 devs, and never noticed it using same Mac Mini for dev
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:56 AM, William Madden <[email protected]>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: > > 1. 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 > 2. Remote servers tend to be slow > - E.g. Amazon EC2 > - Also they cost money I don't have > 3. 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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rails-oceania/-/DhOUxQRvcH8J. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
