Testatic brings a new level of reviewing GitHub pull requests. Every change you have in your Rails application pull request is automatically deployed to a separate server and becomes available for anyone. If you struggle with doing manual testing of team members' changes, with demonstrating your changes to other people, with testing integrations with third-party software, then Testatic is for you.
Whenever you open pull request or push changes to an existing one, Testatic will automatically pick them up and deploy to a fresh server. It will then update commit status with URL to your Rails application.
Let's take a look at example.
We have a basic Rails application and a person working on wants to modify home page.
First of all, he goes to Testatic and logs in using his GitHub account.
Next, he activates Testatic for the repository.
He creates a very simple changes to home page view, pushes them to separate branch and opens a new pull request:
When pull request is opened, Testatic picks up changes and start deploying them to a separate server:
Once deployment is done, Testatic updates commit status on GitHub with:
You can now click "Details" to open your Rails application on a separate server.
Only Rails applications are currently supported.
Rails server is run in production environment.
At the moment, the server has very limited software pre-installed (PostgreSQL, SQLite) and no customization is possible. This makes it useful only for a very simple Rails applications. If that is fine for you and no external dependencies are required, the only thing you might want to do is to provide Testatic with a valid database configuration file. Create config/database.yml.testatic with valid credentials:
production:
database: YOUR_DB_NAME
username: postgresOnce 30 minutes has passed since last request to server, it will be automatically stopped. Visting the URL again will start server again. This means that it's accessible anytime and will only become permanently deleted when pull request is closed or merged.