Jenkins jobs in ruby

Introduction

jenkins_driver is a whenever like tool to describe your reoccuring jobs in ruby and run them via the Jenkins/Hudson CI server. It's aimed to be compatible with the whenever syntax to describe your jobs. Inspired by http://fourkitchens.com/blog/2010/05/09/drop-cron-use-hudson-instead and http://github.com/javan/whenever

Installation

$ gem install jenkins_driver

Or with Bundler in your Gemfile.

gem 'jenkins_driver', :require => false

Getting started

$ cd /my/rails/app
$ rake jenkins_driver:bootstrap

This will create an initial "config/schedule.rb" file you.

Example schedule.rb file

every 3.hours do
  runner "MyModel.some_process"       
  rake "my:rake:task"                 
  command "/usr/bin/my_great_command"
end

every 1.day, :at => '4:30 am' do 
  runner "MyModel.task_to_run_at_four_thirty_in_the_morning"
end

every :hour do # Many shortcuts available: :hour, :day, :month, :year, :reboot
  runner "SomeModel.ladeeda"
end

every :sunday, :at => '12pm' do # Use any day of the week or :weekend, :weekday 
  runner "Task.do_something_great"
end

every '0 0 27-31 * *' do
  command "echo 'you can use raw cron sytax too'"
end

More examples on the wiki: http://wiki.github.com/elitau/jenkins_driver/instructions-and-examples

How it works

• write your config/schedule.rb
• on deployment with capistrano the jobs will be pushed (async) to jenkins over its API