Category Semaphore News

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.

The latest platform release adds Ruby 2.1.0-preview1 to the list of included rubies. If you’re curious about its new features such as refinements, required keyword arguments and improved method caching, now’s your chance to test them in your app.

We have awesome news that we would like to share with you. Semaphore team will almost double its development power. New features, speed improvements and even faster support are around the corner. That’s in case you are a fan of TL;DR, otherwise please read on.

As a response to a sudden appearance of intermittent errors on bundle install related to SSL, we’ve upgraded the RubyGems package to the latest version (2.1.9) in all Rubies provided on the Semaphore build platform.

We’ve rolled out a new feature that lets you run commands at the end of each thread, regardless of whether build commands passed or failed.

Today we’re rolling out an update to the build platform which includes new versions of git, Firefox (please update your selenium-webdriver gem) and more.

Today we’re very happy to announce our partnership with Cloud 66. Cloud 66 makes it easy to provision, deploy and manage Ruby on Rails applications on major cloud providers.

Capistrano is a great tool for remote server automation and deployment. The standard practice is to have a single Capistrano setup per application, but if you are working on a complex project that consists of several applications or services, managing deployment configuration can become a daunting task.

At Semaphore, we want to empower great teams to test and deliver high quality apps. Besides providing top-notch build and deployment services, enabling our customers to get more insights from their test suite is a big part of that. Today we’re proud to announce that Semaphore has partnered with Code Climate to provide test coverage […]

Over the past week we rolled out an update to our repository caching system. Previously cache was branch based, and all users suffered one disadvantage: first builds of every new branch took more time as the git clone and bundle install had to be done from scratch.

Semaphore is great for testing your web application. Every day, code of thousands of developers is flowing through Semaphore for verification so that they can deliver new features to users with confidence.