CruiseControl on Mac OSX
So, I've got this shiny new mac provided by my new employers, and so I figured I'd put it to use as a CruiseControl build manager. I found the process reasonably simple but, just like the process of setting up Subversion and SCPlugin, there are a couple of extra steps I figured I'd share...
First step, download the latest source from the downloads page here. Simply expand that to where you want your CruiseControl instance to live. Next open up a terminal window, and type the following:
cruisecontrol.sh
More than likely, you will get the following error message:
-bash: cruisecontrol.sh: command not found
More hunting on the mighty intergoogle and a quick look at 'bash guide for beginners' told me the answer - I need to tell bash which shell to use to execute the cruisecontrol.sh script. I found either of the following lines worked:
sh cruisecontrol.sh
bash -x cruisecontrol.sh
I'm not a Unix geek, so I don't pretend to know what the difference is, or which is preferable - if anyone can tell me I'd love to know..
Comments
-x is just for debugging afaik (basically verbose info if that process fails). what you should try (and this is on all nix systems) when calling a sh script in the same folder you are in you go bash
./cruisecontrol.sh
on my nix box where i want cc to run as a "service" you can start cruisecontrol in deamon mode with -&
:)
glad you are blogging about this CI stuff again, sometimes it feels like its only the two of us interested in it!!
Posted by: johannes | June 10, 2007 11:18 AM
How do you compile and run the 'Dashboard' from the source distribution?
I ended up just downloading the binary distribution because it was too much of a pain to trawl through the docs (which I found more confusing than helpful)
Posted by: Ryan | November 25, 2007 08:54 PM
Hi Ryan,
I just went with the binary distribution too, sorry if this wasn't clear in the post...
Posted by: Paul BH | November 25, 2007 08:59 PM