What is CI?
Explore the concept of continuous integration (CI) and its role in maintaining sustainable workflows for Rails applications. Understand common CI challenges and how explicit, well-managed configurations prevent test failures and deployment issues. This lesson equips you to create and maintain a stable CI setup, improving team collaboration and ensuring consistent production deployments.
We'll cover the following...
The conventional meaning of continuous integration (CI) is a system that runs all tests and checks of every branch pushed to a
This enables a common workflow, as outlined in the figure below. This workflow allows developers to create branches with proposed changes and have bin/ci execute those on the CI server to make sure all tests and checks pass. The team can do code reviews as necessary. When both bin/ci and code reviews are good, the change can be merged onto the main branch for deployment. The bin/ci command is run yet again ...