README.md

Continuous Integration from GitHub

Introduction

This tutorial will show you how to set up continuous deployment of your ruby website from github.

Prerequisites

1. A personal GitHub account
2. A github repository containing a ruby application that works in production mode. (You can just fork the tutorial example instead if you don't want to go about creating a new ruby application)

Steps

1. This tutorial will be using a repo named Hamster-Huey/ruby-splash. This is a basic ruby site that serves a modified version of the Azure App Service splash page. Fork this repository to repro this tutorial exactly.

2. Go to the azure portal and click new and choose Web App on Linux

3. Set up your new website making sure to choose ruby 2.3 container

4. Wait for the site creation to complete. Navigate to your new site's blade in the portal and look on the sidebar to click on deployment options

5. For Deployment source choose Github Repository

6. Configure your deployment source to your GitHub accountn and private project repository. Here's an example:

7. Your deployment options blade may look like this:

Click sync to kick off a sync/build of your ruby site.

8. Wait for the deployment to finish

9. Navigate to your site's url. You may have to wait a couple minutes as the container starts, but in the end you should see this page: