Ludicrous

The ludicrous plugin takes the extreme practice of continuous delivery to a new extreme... perhaps even a ludicrous one.

Every time a file is saved the unit test suite is run and, if the tests pass, the code is committed and pushed to git. Ideally this will trigger a continuous delivery server to validate the code and push it to production. In actual usage this has resulted in 20-50 production releases per hour with a single developer.

Currently this approach, and this plugin, are designed to work on projects with only a single committer.

Installation

1. Add ludicrous along with test.watch to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:ludicrous, github: "julias-shaw/ludicrous", only: [:dev, :test]},
    {:mix_test_watch, "~> 0.2.6", only: :dev},
  ]
end

2. Ensure ludicrous is started before your application:

def application do
  [applications: [:ludicrous]]
end

3. Configure test.watch to run stale tests and invoke the ludicrous plugin after a successful test run.

config :mix_test_watch,
  tasks: [
    "test --stale",
    "ludicrous",
  ]

4. Optionally configure your remote repo to check network availability and a custom commit message. The remote repo defaults to github.com so you do not need to set it if that is where your repo lives. The commit message defaults to "Ludicrous mode commit!" if you don't configure something else.

config :ludicrous,
  commit_message: "Custom commit message goes here",
  domain: "example.com"