evennia/docs/source/Coding/Continuous-Integration.md

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Continuous Integration

One of the advantages of Evennia over traditional MU* development systems is that Evennia can integrate into enterprise-level integration environments and source control.

What is Continuous Integration (CI)?

Continuous Integration (CI) is a development practice that requires developers to integrate code into a shared repository. Each check-in is then verified by an automated build, allowing teams to detect problems early. This can be set up to safely deploy data to a production server only after tests have passed, for example.

For Evennia, continuous integration allows an automated build process to:

  • Pull down a latest build from Source Control.
  • Run migrations on the backing SQL database.
  • Automate additional unique tasks for that project.
  • Run unit tests.
  • Publish those files to the server directory
  • Reload the game.

List of continuous integration tools

There are a lot of tools and services providing CI functionality. Here are a few that people have used with Evennia:

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Continuous-Integration-Travis.md
Continuous-Integration-TeamCity.md

This is an overview of other tools (external link).