Don't be tempted by something with a duff CPU, I've been down that route, tests take so long it not worth it. Maybe consider a chunky (desktop replacement style) laptop if portability is an issue.
Software wise Jenkins works well (is available by apt on Ubuntu). Have you considered travis-ci? Cheers Jon On 30 Oct 2012, at 23:56, 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: > 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 > -- > 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.
