For some time, Hudson has become my favorite continuous integration server. It's easy to configure and provides a handful of really interesting plug-ins. The only thing that I missed was the possibility of use Rake as a project build tool and thus I'll be able to take my java, ruby or rails projects into the same CI server.
Well, past weekend I had too much spare time so I decided to develop my first Hudson plugin and this morning I've released the first version of the Hudson Rake plugin.
Once you have installed Hudson you just need to donwload the plug-in and upload it from the Manage Hudson section:
When the plugin is avalable it detects your ruby instances installed from your PATH but it allows you to add other ruby or jruby paths:
Finally you just need to select the Invoke Rake option into the project configuration and select the tasks that you want to Hudson executes:
That's it, you are ready to go with Rake, Hudson and the Continuous Integration Game.
