Category Product News

Since we started the Semaphore project, we’ve always strived to come up with a good design. Continuous integration (CI) was not a new concept, but we saw a lot of room for improvement in how it’s done. We hoped that eventually more projects will use CI, which would benefit our entire industry. For example, with […]

Semaphore, our hosted continuous integration service, is being continuously improved. Here are the highlights of what’s new since our last post. Build environment improvements We’ve upgraded our build environment, making PhantomJS, Java, Sphinx and Memcache, among others, available out of the box. There’s a more complete list on our documentation site, and we know quite […]

Hot on the heels of Semaphore’s public launch, we’ve shipped two important and frequently requested features so far: Campfire notifications and support for different versions of Ruby.

Close to two hundred people signed up to beta test Semaphore. We invited a better part (sorry if we haven't invited you early), and those who were invited actually became a part of our team in a way. Thank you so much people and I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.

Since we launched Semaphore as a private beta a month ago we have received a lot of positive feedback along with many feature requests. We saw various projects and realized that many people need to do something in the test suite that we cannot guess. Or simply want to build a Ruby project that is […]

Semaphore is a product of scratching our own itch. Rendered Text as a team of five people usually works on a few projects at a time.