Groundskeeper

The goal of this gem is to manage the workflow related to releasing and deploying Rails applications.

Installation

Install this gem globally via:

gem install groundskeeper-bitcore

Note: if you have multiple versions of Ruby installed (via RVM e.g.), you will need to install this gem for each of them.

Additionally, to integrate with Jira you will need to set some environment variables. One standard place to do this is in the ~/.bash_profile:

export JIRA_USERNAME="my-username"
export JIRA_PASSWORD="my-password"
export JIRA_SITE="https://cbit123.atlassian.net"

Additionally, you need to add a GitHub API Token with repo scope to your bash_profile. You can create one here if you don't have one already.

export GITHUB_API_TOKEN="my-github-api-token"

Jira integration also depends on a repository that contains metadata for projects. Clone it as follows:

git clone [email protected]:NU-CBITS/project_details.git ~/.project_details

Usage

To display tag/release information about a Rails project, use the info command within a Rails application directory:

ground info

To create a new release tag, use the release command within a Rails application directory:

ground release

To prepare the server (only required the first time) for deployment:

tag=0.0.0 stage=production ground predeploy

To deploy the release (note that stage is optional and will be set to staging by default):

tag=0.0.0 stage=production ground deploy

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/NU-CBITS/groundskeeper. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Code of Conduct

Everyone interacting in the Groundskeeper project’s codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.

Troubleshooting

If ssh connection to github requires a passphrase, this will cause issues with deployment. Add ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/id_rsa to the ~/.bash_profile to solve.