Continuous Integration

In deployed applications, one method of releasing updates is continuous integration — every new approved change is immediately checked in to the live app. CI services can hook into GitHub and enable features like running test suites for every PR, grading code quality, automatically deploying the most recent updates to the master branch, etc.

There are many good CI services out there. Some of the most popular include:

• Circle CI
• Travis CI
• Codeship

This Gist will walk you through setting up the latter, which is free for open source projects and does not require adding any files to your project.

Codeship

For user-owned projects, the following steps will have to be performed by the user whose account hosts the repo. For organization-owned projects, the following steps can be performed by any admin-level user within the organization.

Initializing your project

1. Visit https://www.codeship.io/ and sign up with your GitHub account.
2. Authorize Codeship to read your GitHub account info (email, repos).
3. Fill out the required sections of their questionnaire (experience level, number of engineers).
4. Select the GitHub icon to read a GitHub project.
5. Enter the clone URL of a GitHub project.

Configuring your project

Under Setup Commands, replace the sample code with the following:

psql -c 'create database fsg;'
psql -c 'create database "testing-fsg;"'
nvm install node # installs latest; may need to change this in the future
npm install -g gulp
npm install

Under Test Commands, replace the sample code with the following:

gulp testServerJS
gulp testBrowserJS