Pivotal Pulse and Integrity

For better or worse, I’m committed to Integrity. Its green successful builds are alluring enough that I can’t put it down, even if it’s a little … different … occasionally.

At my old job, I had Integrity in an iframe taking up half of a ginormous TV mounted on the wall. There was some javascript I tossed in to bounce the iframe into build-specific views every 15 or so seconds. It was nice, but kind of hard to see quickly, and limited to only the Integrity builds.

At my new place, I’m working on getting some automated testing working on several servers (Cuke/Watir tests run by Hudson on a few Windows machines, and our unit/functional/integration tests run on Integrity), so I wanted something that could aggregate across those.

I found Pulse by the Pivotal guys, and it looks really pretty. I like the boxes. Rounded edges. It’s the little things.*

Anyway, hooking that up to Integrity wasn’t straightforward, because Integrity doesn’t implement a project-specific RSS feed (Pulse requires either a Hudson or CC-style feed). So I wrote one tonight.

I could have released this as a gem that you could include on your Integrity app, but I don’t really have any intention of maintaining this for anyone else, so I wouldn’t want to put out that expectation.

If you want the code for a project-specific RSS on Integrity for something like Pivotal Pulse, here you go:

* A friend informed me as I was telling him about this that Hudson (which I’ll be using on the Windows machines) has an aggregator plugin. Color me a Hudson noob.