Thus far the only way you could add an environment variable to you project was to include an export SECRET_TOKEN=abcd123 in your build configuration.
Ruby 2.1.2 Support
I’m happy to announce that Semaphore now supports Ruby 2.1.2. Select it on the project settings page and build something awesome!
MySQL Strict Mode And You
We’ve recently upgraded MySQL 5.5 to 5.6 in our platform. Along with many performance and stability improvements, the new version also has strict…
Trigger a Deploy Over API And More Updates
As our API evolves, a need for an action that allows user to trigger a deploy via API appeared.
Upcoming Platform Update on May 5th
The upcoming platform update is scheduled for Monday, May 5, 2014. Bundler is updated to version 1.6.2 featuring a lot of goodies,…
Heartbleed
It allows anyone to read 64k chunks of memory of the systems using the vulnerable versions of OpenSSL, leaving no trace in common system or server logs.
A New Way To Read Build Results
As we are always in pursuit of greatness and bleeding edge technology, we have taken inspiration from the past in order to do something completely new.
Managing Externals in Ruby Tests
In order to deal with external resources when writing tests, common solution is to use a mock instance of the resource that is not part of your system.
New Build and Deploy Emails
We are very happy to announce that Semaphore is now sending new and more helpful build and deploy emails.So far, we have been sending out plain …
Slack Integration
We’re very happy to announce official integration between Semaphore and Slack. Slack is a new team communication service with apps for all major platforms.
Upcoming Platform Update on March 5
The upcoming platform update is scheduled for Wednesday, March 5 2014.Ruby 2.1.1 is added to the stack. Rubies 2.0.0 and 1.9.3 get upgraded patchlevels, …
Building Pull Requests From Forked Repos
We are glad to announce that Semaphore now supports building pull requests from forked repositories. However, GitHub recently removed the ability to push…
Clojure on Semaphore
We’re very excited to announce official support for testing and deploying Clojure projects. Clojure is the third official language supported by Semaphore.
Webhooks API and More Updates
Our goal is to let our users fit Semaphore to a wide range of workflows, while keeping the core product simple to use. The API is a big part of that…
Rails Testing Antipatterns: Controllers
When starting out with Rails, with all the “magic” going on it can be easy to forget that controllers are just classes that need tests as well.