Adding a git post-receive hook to fire off Hudson CI server

UPDATE: guard clause throws LocalJumpError. Changed to simple if block Context: I needed our hudson CI builds to auto-fire when a developer pushes their code changes to our canonical/upstream git repositories. In your .git/hooks/post-receive file place the file code (FULL CODE):

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#
while (input = STDIN.read) != ''
   rev_old, rev_new, ref = input.split(" ")
   if ref == "refs/heads/master"

       url="http://yourhudsondomain.com/job/job_name_here/build?delay=0sec"

       puts "Run Hudson build for job_name_here application"
       `wget #{url} > /dev/null 2>&1`
   end
end

EXPLAINING EACH LINE: I avoid writing bash scripts in default bash if I can. This is for a Ruby on Rails app, so I decided to write it in Ruby.

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

The while loop checks to make sure there are values in STDIN (by default they are rev_old, rev_new, and ref).

#
while (input = STDIN.read) != ''
end

I put an if statement block:

if ref == "refs/heads/master"
end

to make sure I only fire the build if it is the master branch. Set the URL for the app you want to build:

url="http://yourhudsondomain.com/job/job_name_here/build?delay=0sec"

Add a little text to notify the user what is going on (always a good idea):

puts "Run Hudson build for job_name_here application"

And finally all the url with wget and feeding any response to the black hole that is /dev/null

:

`wget #{url} > /dev/null 2>&1`

IMPORTANT: Don’t forget to run:

chmod a+x .git/hooks/post-receive

so that the file can be run Some Gotchas: 1. If you are going to a url that has http basic authentication like my actual script does, you can pass the username and password like you normally would in an HTTP call:

url="http://username:[email protected]/job/job_name_here/build?delay=0sec"

2. If you are doing an https call with a self-signed certificate, wget will complain. You can add the --no-check-certificate argument to wget to bypass certificate validation against local certificate caches:

`wget --no-check-certificate #{url} > /dev/null 2>&1`