[rules-users] continuous integration of rule assets via jenkins to guvnor?

[Ansgar Konermann]

Hi,

we use drools for mortgage risk assessment and use TeamCity for continuous
integration of rules.

Our source code is *.drl (no DSL or processes yet). Rules get unit tested
(TestNG), compiled into binary packages and some integration tests run
against each of these packages. If all is good, we perform an ordinary
maven release of the rules. They get a version number just as any other
maven artifact and get deployed to a maven repository manager (Nexus OSS)
and our packaging/deployment tool pulls them from there just before it
needs them.

We don't use guvnor at all (we have a very developer-centric
rules-authoring/rollout process) and perform rule compilation with a maven
plugin ( http://passion.forco.de/node/34 ). It does not need any running
guvnor instance, but uses drools' public rules compilation Java API.

If you want to know more details, or have questions, please let me know.

Best regards,

Ansgar
Am 03.10.2012 23:27 schrieb "Cedric Hurst" <cedric at spantree.net>:

> I'd like to get a quick sanity check on best practices...
>
> I'm working on a project where, by policy, all assets (including drl's,
> bpmn
> files, etc) must be built, tested and packaged by a Jenkins server.  Rule
> assets are structured within a project that also includes non-rule assets.
> As is quite common, the primary system of record for these assets is an SCM
> like svn or git, and that's what our Jenkins box talks to.
>
> However, for the rule stuff specifically, we're also using Guvnor's
> drools-repository to package the assets into a knowledge base, which is
> referenced jBPM's process engine in the runtime.  The plan is to have
> several Guvnor environments running with parity to development, QA, UAT and
> production setups.  However, we're having a very hard time figuring out how
> best to sync our rule assets to these various repositories as part of an
> automated release.
>
> To the best of my understanding, rule assets are deployed to a Guvnor
> instance file-by-file via WebDAV.  One can also upload JARs for POJOs, but
> DRLs, BPMN, DSL files need to be synced individually.  Is this the case?
> And, if so, how do other groups handle continuous integration and
> deployment
> of assets coming from external SCMs?
>
> Btw, I came across aware of a Maven plugin which seems to do this sort of
> piece-by-piece deployment:
>
> https://github.com/awaterma/drools-guvnor-plugin
>
> So we could certainly port this sort of functionality to our own build
> toolchain, but it seems like a lot of work so I'm hoping for a better way.
>
>
>
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