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How to make knapsack_pro works for forked repositories of my project?

Imagine one of the scenarios, for this example I use the Travis-CI.

  • We don’t want to have secrets like the KNAPSACK_PRO_TEST_SUITE_TOKEN_RSPEC in .travis.yml in the codebase, because that code is also distributed to clients.
  • Adding it as env variables to Travis itself is tricky: It has to work for pull requests from developer’s forks into our main fork; this conflicts with the way Travis handles secrets. We also need a fallback if the token is not provided (when developers do builds within their own fork).

The solution for this problem is to set KNAPSACK_PRO_TEST_SUITE_TOKEN_RSPEC as env variables in Travis for our main project. This won't be accessible on forked repositories so we will run knapsack_pro in Fallback Mode there. This way forked repositories have working test suite but without optimal test suite split across CI nodes.

Create the file bin/knapsack_pro_rspec with executable chmod in your main project repository. Below example is for rspec. You can change $KNAPSACK_PRO_TEST_SUITE_TOKEN_RSPEC to $KNAPSACK_PRO_TEST_SUITE_TOKEN_CUCUMBER if you use cucumber etc.


#!/bin/bash
if [ "$KNAPSACK_PRO_TEST_SUITE_TOKEN_RSPEC" = "" ]; then
  KNAPSACK_PRO_ENDPOINT=https://api-disabled-for-fork.knapsackpro.com \
    KNAPSACK_PRO_TEST_SUITE_TOKEN_RSPEC=disabled-for-fork \
    KNAPSACK_PRO_MAX_REQUEST_RETRIES=0 \
    bundle exec rake knapsack_pro:rspec # use Regular Mode here always
else
    # Regular Mode
    bundle exec rake knapsack_pro:rspec

    # or you can use Queue Mode instead of Regular Mode if you like
    # bundle exec rake knapsack_pro:queue:rspec
fi

Now you can use bin/knapsack_pro_rspec command instead of bundle exec rake knapsack_pro:rspec. Remember to follow other steps required for your CI provider.

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