Travis

Getting started

This is a very short guide to using Travis CI with your GitHub hosted code repository. If you’re new to continuous integration or would like some more information on what Travis CI does, start with Core Concepts for Beginners instead.

Prerequisites

To start using Travis CI, make sure you have all of the following:

To get started with Travis CI

  1. Using your GitHub account, sign in to either

    and accept the GitHub access permissions confirmation.

  2. Once you’re signed in to Travis CI, and we’ve synchronized your GitHub repositories, go to your profile page and enable the repository you want to build: enable button

  3. Add a .travis.yml file to your repository to tell Travis CI what to do.

    The following example tells Travis CI that this is a Ruby project that should be built with Ruby 2.2, and the latest versions of JRuby and Rubinius 2.X.

    language: ruby
rvm:
 - 2.2
 - jruby
 - rbx-3

    The defaults for Ruby projects are bundle install to install dependencies, and rake to build the project.

  4. Add the .travis.yml file to git, commit and push, to trigger a Travis CI build:

    Travis only runs builds on the commits you push after you’ve enabled the repository in Travis CI.

  5. Check the build status page to see if your build passes or fails, according to the return status of the build command:

Selecting a different programming language

Use one of these common languages:

language: ruby

language: java

language: node_js

language: python

language: php

Or pick one from the full list.

Selecting infrastructure (optional)

The best way to determine what infrastructure your build runs on is to set the language. If you do this your build runs on the default infrastructure (with a few exceptions), which is Container Based Ubuntu 14.04. You can explicitly select the default infrastructure by adding sudo: false to your .travis.yml.

  • If you need a more customizable environment running in a virtual machine, use the Sudo Enabled infrastructure:

    sudo: enabled

  • If you have tests that need to run on macOS, or your project uses Swift or Objective-C, use our OS X environment:

    os: osx

    You do not necessarily need to use OS X if you develop on a Mac, only if you need Swift, Objective-C or other macOS-specific software.

More than running tests

Travis CI isn’t just for running tests, there are many others things you can do with your code:

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