Elite Frontier

Hudson is a good CI server. The configuration and set up under Debian has some challenges because the Hudson server runs as hudson:nogroup. You have to setup permissions on the Postgres server correctly.

Luckily, PostgreSQL can be installed as part of the Debian installation, however to get it working with Rails you will need to install libpq-dev

apt-get install libpq-dev

Create the hudson postgresql acct as super user. This is necessary since postgres will check the ident of the account trying to create/modify the databases and simply setting that information in the database.yml file is not enough. Hudson runs, under Debian, as hudson:nogroup

createuser --superuser hudson -U postgres

By default the password will be empty, so log into psql and set the password of the hudson user.

/usr/bin/psql
ALTER ROLE hudson WITH ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'hudsonpw';

Finally in your database.yml file use:

username: hudson
password: hudsonpw

Now you can run rake db:create etc and you should be able to build the project using Hudson.