Will

We use a mac mini here for the CI server, is that portable enough?
Not cheap, but very flexible.

Sebastian

William Madden <mailto:[email protected]>
31 October 2012 10:56 AM
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
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