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Travis CI Debug Build

Jayanth Dungavath edited this page Dec 21, 2017 · 7 revisions
  • Install travis gem gem install travis for local scholar repo
  • Get your private token travis token
  • Get the respective build id from the build log under "Build system information".
  • Run the following command with your private token and the job id to restart a build in debug mode
    curl -s -X POST \
      -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
      -H "Accept: application/json" \
      -H "Travis-API-Version: 3" \
      -H "Authorization: token ********************" \
      -d "{\"quiet\": true}" \
      https://api.travis-ci.org/job/${id}/debug
  • Visit the respective build page on travis-ci.org and follow the log of debug build to find ssh command to connect to debug build via terminal
  • Run something similar to ssh <random-string>@ny2.tmate.io from your terminal
  • If you get a permission denied error, run ssh-keygen to generate key. If you don't go with the defaults of ssh-keygen, run ssh -i ~/.ssh/<NameYouProvided> <random-string>@to2.tmate.io
  • After you connect to the session, you can run the following commands in order
    travis_run_before_install
    travis_run_install
    travis_run_before_script
    travis_run_script --> This triggers "bundle exec rake ci". You can modify code before running this if need be.
    travis_run_after_success
    travis_run_after_failure
    travis_run_after_script
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