Recently we looked at enabling Travis CI on the Controlrepo. Today, we’re going to do the same for a module repo. We’re going to use much of the same logic and files, just tweaking things a bit to fit the slightly different file layout and perhaps changing the test matrix a bit. If you have not registered for Travis CI yet, go ahead and take care of that (public or private) before continuing.

The first challenge is to decide if you’re going to enable Travis CI with an existing module, or a new module. Since a new module is probably easier, let’s get the hard stuff out of the way.

Set up an existing module

I have an existing module rnelson0/certs which has no CI but does have working rspec tests, a great candidate for today’s efforts. Let’s make sure the tests actually work, it’s easy to make incorrect assumptions:

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