• Ignoring Scalatest Tests By Tag When Using JUnit Runner and Gradle

    I use Drone for CI for some projects, a fully awesome Docker based build pipeline tool. On one of my projects that uses Gradle and scalatest I was experience a hang at the end of the build & test phase, prevent further Drone tasks from running. After a lengthly chunk of work and diagnosis I found this issue to Docker v1.12, which matched our Docker version on Drone. However, I learnt some things along the way which I’ll blog about piece by piece, and first up is ignoring scalatest tests by tag when using JUnit Runner.
  • A Spark Gradle Project

    An Empty Spark Project with Gradle Goodies When I started working with Spark, I was new to many technologies, and one of the most time consuming aspects for me was putting together a set of build tools. Objectives Over the course of this project, I found myself wanting a handful of features from the build. Build the code Run the tests Run Spark integration tests Bundle my project into an uberjar for easy use with Spark Build a tar file that contains my jar and other files I might want (such as configuration templates) Add the git commit hash to the jar manifest Using the code Grab the code from Github.