This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Declare Your Pipelines! Declarative Pipeline 1.0 is here! This is the second post in a series showing some of the cool features of Declarative Pipeline. In the previous blog post, we created a simple Declarative Pipeline. In this blog post, we’ll go back and look at the Scripted Pipeline for the Publishing HTML Reports in Pipeline blog post. We’ll convert that Pipeline to...

This is a guest post by R. Tyler Croy, who is a long-time contributor to Jenkins and the primary contact for Jenkins project infrastructure. He is also a Jenkins Evangelist at CloudBees, Inc. When the Ruby on Rails framework debuted it changed the industry in two noteworthy ways: it created a trend of opinionated web application frameworks (Django, Play, Grails) and it also strongly encouraged thousands of developers to embrace test-driven development along...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Most projects need more that just JUnit result reporting. Rather than writing a custom plugin for each type of report, we can use the HTML Publisher Plugin. Let’s Make This Quick I’ve found a Ruby project, hermann, I’d like to build using Jenkins Pipeline. I’d also like to have the code coverage results published with each build job. ...

Yesterday, Kohsuke announced that the 'jruby' branch of jenkins-core had been merged to master. This doesn't mean that we're done and that you can go forth and write pure ruby plugins… not by any stretch of the imagination. Instead, what it does mean, is that the Jenkins mainline is much more friendly to runtime analysis of classes with which it is not familiar. The problem When analyzing...

You know that the night is going to be productive whenever @kohsukekawa shows up, and last night was no exception. We talked about problems on the horizon, potential solutions, and then I spent the last half hour ripping a bit of code. The truth of the matter is that most of the changes that have to be done to Jenkins core have already been made,...

After a one week hiatus, we returned to the weekly hack session on a mission light up the sky with fire! Attendees Charles Lowell, Rasheed Abdul-Aziz, Hiroshi Nakamura Discussion/Accomplished How to manage the different ScriptingContainers inside the Jenkins renamed the experimental repo where we've been doing all of our development from fog.hpi to the more aptly name [https://github.com/cowboyd/jenkins-ruby-plugins-playground] started a separate gem for housing...

[Editor's Note: For the past few weeks Jenkins community member Charles Lowell has been working with Kohsuke on adding support for building plugins in Ruby. As part of this effort, Charles has been hosting weekly hack sessions via WebEx] As always, last night's Ruby Plugins hack session was a pleasure. Below is a quick notation of what items were discussed and/or accomplished followed by next...