Monitoring Rails builds with CruiseControl.rb and CCTray

More for my own memory than anything else...

CruiseControl.NET comes with a tool called CCTray  that gives you a handy way of monitoring the build status of multiple CruiseControl environments. It works out of the box with other CruiseControl.NET installations but needs a little trick to monitor the Ruby  and Java  versions (why we need the same app implemented three times is a subject for a rant one day I'm sure...).

For Ruby on Rails projects, set the monitoring URL in CCTray to this:

http://hostname.of.cruisecontrol.rb:3333/XmlStatusReport.aspx

It's not a real ASPX page but it returns XML that CCTray is expecting.

Cruise Control for Java is similar, but different ('natch):

http://hostname.of.cruisecontrol:3333/dashboard/cctray.xml

 Had trouble Googling that. :-)
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