README.rdoc in cruisestatus-1.2.1 vs README.rdoc in cruisestatus-1.3.1

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@@ -1,20 +1,74 @@ = Cruise Status -CruiseStatus allows your Ruby scripts to check the status of your project's -build. Use this to abort check-ins when the build has failed, for example. +CruiseStatus allows your Ruby scripts to check the status of your project's +build. Use this to abort check-ins when the build has failed, for example. -== Example: +CruiseStatus currently supports checking builds run on +cruisecontrol.rb[http://cruisecontrolrb.thoughtworks.com/] or on +runcoderun.com[http://runcoderun.com/]. +== CruiseControl.rb Example: + +To check a cruise.rb build, pass the url to the project RSS feed to ++CruiseStatus+: + require "cruisestatus" if CruiseStatus.new( 'http://my.cruise.com/projects.rss' ).pass? puts "Build passed!" else abort "Build failed…Boo!" end +== RunCodeRun.com Example: + +To check a build on http://runcoderun.com, simply pass the url for the json +API: + + require "cruisestatus" + + if CruiseStatus.new( 'http://runcoderun.com/api/v1/json/tobytripp' ).pass? + puts "Build passed!" + else + abort "Build failed…boo!" + end + +== Command-line Usage: + +The gem's binary is +cruisestatus+. Pass a URL to it and +cruisestatus+ will +check the build status at that URL and return a non-zero status if any of the +builds reported there have failed. + +Pass a `-p` option to prompt the user when a build has failed. If the user +enters 'y' at the prompt, +cruisestatus+ will return a zero status regardless +of build failures. + +For example: + toby@Tobys-Mac:(git)cruisestatus[master]/$ cruisestatus -p http://runcoderun.com/api/v1/json/tobytripp + + Build FAILURES: cruisestatus + Are you sure you want to check in? (y/n): y + + toby@Tobys-Mac:(git)cruisestatus[master]/$ echo $? + 0 + + toby@Tobys-Mac:(git)cruisestatus[master]/$ cruisestatus -p http://runcoderun.com/api/v1/json/tobytripp + + Build FAILURES: cruisestatus + Are you sure you want to check in? (y/n): n + + toby@Tobys-Mac:(git)cruisestatus[master]/$ echo $? + 1 + toby@Tobys-Mac:(git)cruisestatus[master]/$ + +You can use this to abort check-ins onto broken builds. (See the post-commit +hook in http://github.com/tobytripp/git-pre-commit for example). As you know, +if the CI build is broken, no one should be checking in new code unless +they're fixing the build. You can use +cruisestatus+ to help keep developers +honest in that regard. + == Note on Patches/Pull Requests * Fork the project. * Make your feature addition or bug fix. * Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a @@ -29,10 +83,9 @@ http://runcoderun.com/tobytripp/cruisestatus == TODO * Cruise.java support? -* Support for runcoderun.com == Copyright Copyright (c) 2010 Toby Tripp. See LICENSE for details.