This is a little Sinatra app notifies Hipchat of any changes in the build status on your CruiseControl.rb install.

Heroku-ready! Just follow these steps:

Installation

Install as a gem

gem install cruisecontrolrb_to_hipchat

or add to your Gemfile

# Gemfile
gem "cruisecontrolrb_to_hipchat"

and run bundle install

or from source

git clone git@github.com:zumobi/cruisecontrolrb_to_hipchat.git
cd cruisecontrolrb_to_hipchat
bundle install
rake build

Configuration

Make sure to define the following environment variable as they are required in either you .profile or /etc/profile.d/cruisecontrolrc_to_hipchat.sh (for all users)

HIPCHAT_AUTH_TOKEN=your_auth_token
HIPCHAT_ROOM_ID=your_room_id
CC_URL=your_cruise_control_url

The following are optionals

Basic auth for your CruiseControlrb install (recommended):

CC_USERNAME=your_username
CC_PASSWORD=your_password

POLLING_INTERVAL                             # polling interval in minutes. defaults to 1 minute.
HIPCHAT_FROM=cruise-control    # who the messages are "from" in hipchat. defaults to 'cruise-control'       

Running

As this gem uses dante, options are best describes here but here are some very simple setup

Run in foreground and STDOUT output (to test most likely)

cruisecontrolrb_to_hipchat

Run in foreground with logs

cruisecontrolrb_to_hipchat -l /var/log/myapp.log

Run as a daemon with a pid file and logs

cruisecontrolrb_to_hipchat -d -P /var/run/myapp.pid -l /var/log/myapp.log