How can I test my jenkins ci pipelines locally?

Question

I am writing a number of ci scripts for jenkins pipelines. A frequently occuring pattern is

dir("path/to/stuff"){
   do_stuff()
}

I would like to 'test-run' these scripts to achieve a (very) short feedback loop. But I immediately run into the fact that this dir method is not an 'official' groovy method.

$ groovy ci/test-ci-scripts.groovy
Caught: groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method:
  test-ci-scripts.dir() is applicable for argument types: ....

What do I need to import to get this running?

So far the only way I found is to start Jenkins locally, perhaps in a Docker container, and run it there. After all the point of pipelines is to be able to quickly set it up in any server. — Jan Hudec, Oct 08 '19 at 11:25
Possible duplicate of [How can I test a change made to Jenkinsfile locally?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36309063/how-can-i-test-a-change-made-to-jenkinsfile-locally) — Jan Hudec, Oct 08 '19 at 11:25

score -2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 02 '17 at 09:23

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just use single apostrophe's

dir('path') {
    // some block
}

works fine for me. (You can find dir in Jenkins Pipeline Snippet Generator)

answered Mar 02 '17 at 09:23

Rod Kimble

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and can you run `groovy my-ci-script.groovy` on your command line? – xtofl Mar 02 '17 at 12:23
I'm really not sure, if this works, at least if a) steps out of the Jenkins DSL or b) calls to Jenkins Java API are made. – StephenKing Mar 02 '17 at 12:31

How can I test my jenkins ci pipelines locally?

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