TeamCity for Python/Django continuous integration

Question

I've set up TeamCity on a Linux (Ubuntu) box and would like to use it for some of Python/Django projects. The problem is that I don't really see what to do next - I tried searching for a Python specific build agent for TeamCity but without much of the success. How can I manage that?

Accepted Answer

Ok, so there's how to get it working with proper TeamCity integration:

Presuming you have TeamCity installed with at least 1 build agent available

1) Configure your build agent to execute

```
manage.py test
```

2) Download and install this plugin for TC http://pypi.python.org/pypi/teamcity-messages

3) You'll have to provide your custom test runner for plugin in (2) to work. It can be straight copy of run_tests from django.test.simple, with only one slight modification: replace line where test runner is called with TeamcityTestRunner, so insted of

```
def run_tests(test_labels, verbosity=1, interactive=True, extra_tests=[]):
    ...
    result = unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=verbosity).run(suite)
```

use this:

```
def run_tests(test_labels, verbosity=1, interactive=True, extra_tests=[]):
    ...
    result = TeamcityTestRunner().run(suite)
```

You'll have to place that function into a file in your solution, and specify a custome test runner, using Django's TEST_RUNNER configuration property like this:

```
TEST_RUNNER = 'my_site.file_name_with_run_tests.run_tests'
```

Make sure you reference all required imports in your file_name_with_run_tests

You can test it by running

```
./manage.py test
```

from command line and noticing that output has changed and now messages like

```
#teamcity....
```

appearing in it.

TeamCity for Python/Django continuous integration

Solution

Problem