We’re very happy to announce official integration between Semaphore and Slack. Slack is a new team communication service with apps for all major platforms.

The upcoming platform update is scheduled for Wednesday, March 5 2014.Ruby 2.1.1 is added to the stack. Rubies 2.0.0 and 1.9.3 get upgraded patchlevels, …

We are glad to announce that Semaphore now supports building pull requests from forked repositories. However, GitHub recently removed the ability to push…

We’re very excited to announce official support for testing and deploying Clojure projects. Clojure is the third official language supported by Semaphore.

Our goal is to let our users fit Semaphore to a wide range of workflows, while keeping the core product simple to use. The API is a big part of that…

When starting out with Rails, with all the “magic” going on it can be easy to forget that controllers are just classes that need tests as well.

Static websites seem to be going through a period of renaissance. About fifteen years ago, webmasters manually managed all HTML files for a website.

We are very excited to announce that Semaphore now has full support for testing and deploying JavaScript projects via Node.js.

The upcoming platform update, scheduled for December 30th, brings a couple of interesting changes. Ruby 2.1.0 final was released on Christmas…

Brakeman is a wonderful tool that can scan your Ruby on Rails application for common vulnerabilities. It’s a static code analyzer that can help you find…

Today we rolled an update to our build platform. The most important change is new patch levels of Ruby, following the recent security fixes.

We recently started receiving support requests about Capistrano 3. Of course to provide quality support you have to know the subject, so I set on a quest to upgrade Semaphore’s deployment script from Capistrano 2 to Capistrano 3. As always it took a bit than expected but in the end new code looks nicer.

If testing and deploying your project requires some specific configuration files, you can now manage them directly through our new Custom Files feature. This feature allows you to securely create, edit or delete files that are not part of your repository.

Normally when you’re working with a Ruby project with Bundler you write a file called Gemfile, run bundle install and then invoke various commands with the bundle exec prefix. However what if you would like to be able to work with different versions of gems over a longer period of time? In that case being […]

The chart below shows the distribution of Ruby versions in private projects tested on Semaphore.