For the last couple of years I’ve been using Ruby.ci to power CI checks on my rails applications. RubyCI is one of those amazing tools that was zero effort to setup and ran flawlessly, it was exactly how I feel that DevOps should be. Sadly, Alex has decided to retire the project and move onto other things.

RubyCI is shutting down on October 15th. Alex gave all users a month’s notice to migrate away to another CI tool, his suggestion was to go with Circle CI, but I decided on GitHub actions. I like the idea of running your CI checks close to your code. GitHub actions are well documented, backed by a strong community and has a well implemented marketplace. Which, after the initial configuration, does make setting things up quite a bit easier.