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I’ve learned how to set up setup grails and how to install hudson on Ubuntu 10.10 Server. Now I want to use hudson to build my grails project.

Before we set up the project, we need to install some plugins. Access your hudson admin interface, probably at http://<hostname>:9090

Go to Hudson -> Manage Hudson -> Manage plugins -> Available (it’s a tab) and get these required plugins:

Hudson Grails plugin

Hudson Mercurial plugin or get the one for git/svn/cvs depending on what you use. I’m a mercurial fan.

If you like, you can also install some of these, but they’re not required:

Radiator View Plugin

Green Balls

ChuckNorris Plugin

Monitoring

Build-timeout Plugin

Hudson Tray Application

After that you need start a new project by going to the link called Hudson -> New project

Choose a job name, and the Build a free-style software project. After you click OK, you get a lot of options. Only some of them are needed:

Discard Old Builds -> Days to keep: 3, Max # of builds to keep: 10

In the Source Code Management part you select Mercurial and then enter the Repository URL. For a private bitbucket it’s like this:

https://<username>:<password>@bitbucket.org/<username>/<project>

Make sure to include the username:password if it’s a private project. For a public one, it’s not needed.

In the Build Triggers section, choose Poll SCM and enter this into the schedule field (it’s std cron notation):

# every minute

* * * * *

In the Build section, choose Add Build Step and Build With Grails. You’ll se a lot of grails related fields but you only need to enter the following into the Targets field:

test-app

Eventually, you’ll probably want to run some other targets, but this one is a good starter.

In the Post-build Actions section, select the Publish JUnit test result report. Enter the following into the Test report XMLs field:

target/test-reports/*.xml

You’re almost done, just click Save in the bottom.

Now run the project and check the outcome. After two runs, you should start to see a unittest graph.

Make a change to your code, push to the repo and see if hudson picks it up. It should poll once every minute and pick up the code change and start a build automatically