Technovangelism

Having been interested in starting a business of my own, I have been been paying close attention to software that could provide any sort of value to a startup. In my months of watching, I have found lots of software, some of which will hopefully help me in the future. Tonight I want to highlight Integrity.

Integrity is a continuous integration server designed for Rails and Git. By setting a post-receive hook in your git repository, every time a member of your team checks in code, your repository can signal Integrity to pull the latest changes and run all the tests in your Rails project. If you have never used a continuous integration server, the value might be easy to miss. Once you have used one and receive notifications of failed builds as soon as possible, it quickly becomes apparent how much time a server like this can save you. If you break the build, no matter how embarrassing it is, life is much better if you can fix the build right away, rather than every one find out that is is broken the hard way.