# Autotest versus Cruisecontrol.rb - Which to start with? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 1, 2007, 9:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/autotest-versus-cruisecontrol-rb-which-to-start-with/105675 "2007-06-01T09:01:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 9:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/autotest-versus-cruisecontrol-rb-which-to-start-with/105675/1 "2007-06-01T09:01:01Z")
Hi, What should I look into re setting up continuous integration? The two I’ve heard about for Ruby on Rails work area AutoTest and CruiseControl.rb. Any advice? Tks ---
**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 9:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/autotest-versus-cruisecontrol-rb-which-to-start-with/105675/2 "2007-06-01T21:11:58Z")
On Jun 1, 2007, at 2:50 AM, Greg H. wrote: > What should I look into re setting up continuous integration? The > two I’ve heard about for Ruby on Rails work area AutoTest and > CruiseControl.rb. start with autotest, on the grounds that it’s really staggeringly simple $ sudo gem install ZenTest $ cd $YOUR\_RAILS\_APP\_DIR $ autotest -faisal ---
**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 12:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/autotest-versus-cruisecontrol-rb-which-to-start-with/105675/3 "2007-06-02T00:32:27Z")
Faisal - I got the following error? Any ideas? sudo gem install ZenTest Password: Need to update 22 gems from [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org) … complete Install required dependency hoe? [Yn] Install required dependency rubyforge? [Yn] Successfully installed ZenTest-3.6.0 Successfully installed hoe-1.2.1 Successfully installed rubyforge-0.4.2 Installing ri documentation for ZenTest-3.6.0… Installing ri documentation for hoe-1.2.1… Installing ri documentation for rubyforge-0.4.2… Installing RDoc documentation for ZenTest-3.6.0… Installing RDoc documentation for hoe-1.2.1… Installing RDoc documentation for rubyforge-0.4.2… my-computer:~/source/myapp greg$ autotest /Applications/Locomotive2/Bundles/standardRailsJan2007.locobundle/i386/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:382:in `latest_partials': undefined method `[]’ for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError) from /Applications/Locomotive2/Bundles/standardRailsJan2007.locobundle/i386/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:379:in `each' from /Applications/Locomotive2/Bundles/standardRailsJan2007.locobundle/i386/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:379:in `latest\_partials’ from /Applications/Locomotive2/Bundles/standardRailsJan2007.locobundle/i386/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:342:in `latest_load_paths' from /Applications/Locomotive2/Bundles/standardRailsJan2007.locobundle/i386/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:341:in `each’ from /Applications/Locomotive2/Bundles/standardRailsJan2007.locobundle/i386/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:341:in `latest_load_paths' from /Applications/Locomotive2/Bundles/standardRailsJan2007.locobundle/i386/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ZenTest- 3.6.0/lib/autotest.rb:109:in `autodiscover’ from /Applications/Locomotive2/Bundles/standardRailsJan2007.locobundle/i386/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ZenTest- 3.6.0/bin/autotest:36 from /Applications/Locomotive2/Bundles/standardRailsJan2007.locobundle/i386/bin/autotest:16:in `load’ from /Applications/Locomotive2/Bundles/standardRailsJan2007.locobundle/i386/bin/autotest:16 my-computer:~/source/myapp greg$ my-computer:~/source/myapp greg$ echo $PATH /Applications/Locomotive2/Bundles/standardRailsJan2007.locobundle/i386/bin:/Applications/Locomotive2/Bundles/standardRailsJan2007.locobundle/i386/sbin:/Users/greg/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin: my-computer:~/source/myapp greg$ my-computer:~/source/myapp greg$ my-computer:~/source/myapp greg$ ---
**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 2:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/autotest-versus-cruisecontrol-rb-which-to-start-with/105675/4 "2007-06-02T02:08:34Z")
On 6/1/07, Greg H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > What should I look into re setting up continuous integration? The two I’ve > heard about for Ruby on Rails work area AutoTest and CruiseControl.rb. Depends on what you mean by “continuous integration”. If you are a strictly one man orchestra autotest is probably all you need. It basically runs unit tests whenever you edit a file. If you have a team and want something to run tests against Subversion repository, notifying the entire team when someone breaks the build, that’s a job for CC.rb. Many people, myself included, actually use both. – Alex Verkhovsky