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+node {
+    stage 'Clean workspace'
+    /* Running on a fresh Docker instance makes this redundant, but just in
+     * case the host isn't configured to give us a new Docker image for every
+     * build, make sure we clean things before we do anything
+     */
+    deleteDir()
+
+
+    stage 'Checkout source'
+    checkout scm
+
+
+    stage 'Build and test'
+    /* if we can't install everything we need for Ruby in less than 15 minutes
+     * we might as well just give up
+     */
+    timeout(30) {
+        sh './gradlew -iS'
+    }
+
+    stage 'Capture test results and artifacts'
+    step([$class: 'JUnitResultArchiver', testResults: 'build/test-results/**/*.xml'])
+    step([$class: 'ArtifactArchiver', artifacts: 'build/libs/*.jar,build/distributions/*.zip', fingerprint: true])
+}
+
+// vim: ft=groovy