About

Jenkins.app is a simple AppleScript wrapper around the Jenkins continuous integration server software.

Because Jenkins has no user interface, it is a bit difficult to start and stop it without using the Terminal and some Unix commands. This makes it easy.

To start Jenkins, run Jenkins.app.

On the first run, Jenkins.app will download jenkins.war from http://jenkins-ci.org and place it into the Resources folder inside the app bundle.

After the download, you will be asked if you want to edit the command-line to start Jenkins. You might, for example, want to add --httpPort=PORT to specify a port other than 8080 (the default).

I myself use --ajpPort=8009 --prefix=/jenkins because I have Apache set to forward anything under http://localhost/jenkins to ajp://localhost:8009/jenkins.

Jenkins.app stays running in your Dock while Jenkins runs in the background. Jenkins.app has no windows.

To stop Jenkins, quit Jenkins.app.

Download

If you log in as "anonymous", you can browse the history of commits (called the Timeline) and download a zip archive of any version in the history.

If that sounds too confusing, you can download Jenkins.zip which I created earlier.

How to clone this repository

fossil clone http://chiselapp.com/user/sti/repository/jenkins-app MYLOCALCOPY
mkdir WORKDIR
cd WORKDIR
fossil open ../MYLOCALCOPY

How to build

cd WORKDIR
ant

Future

At moment I am very happy with the way Jenkins.app works. There are some things I'd like it to do (e.g. to open a browser window to Jenkins front page) but I don't know how to do those things in AppleScript easily. (How would the script know where to find Jenkins if the user changed the default port? It would need to parse the command line.)

Maybe the next version should be written in a real programming language? This is good enough for a first prototype.

If you have any ideas or find bugs, feel free to submit them as Tickets here. The Fossil version control system has built-in bug-tracking/ticketing system.

Thanks

Sami Tikka