Ruby Tests

Compatibility

Supported Ruby interpreters:

Ruby >= 2.1
JRuby >= 9.2

Supported test frameworks:

Cucumber >= 3.0
RSpec >= 3.0.0

Prerequisites

Install the Datadog Agent to collect tests data.

Installing the Ruby tracer

To install the Ruby tracer:

Add the ddtrace gem to your Gemfile:

Gemfile

source 'https://rubygems.org'
gem 'ddtrace', ">=0.51.0"

Install the gem by running bundle install

See the Ruby tracer installation docs for more details.

Instrumenting your tests

Dropdown

The Cucumber integration traces executions of scenarios and steps when using the cucumber framework.

To activate your integration, add the following code to your application:

require 'cucumber'
require 'datadog/ci'

Datadog.configure do |c|
  # Only activates test instrumentation on CI
  c.tracer.enabled = (ENV["DD_ENV"] == "ci")

  # Configures the tracer to ensure results delivery
  c.ci_mode.enabled = true

  # The name of the service or library under test
  c.service = 'my-ruby-app'

  # Enables the Cucumber instrumentation
  c.use :cucumber
end

Run your tests as you normally do, specifying the environment where test are being run (for example, local when running tests on a developer workstation, or ci when running them on a CI provider) in the DD_ENV environment variable. For example:

DD_ENV=ci bundle exec rake cucumber

The RSpec integration traces all executions of example groups and examples when using the rspec test framework.

To activate your integration, add this to the spec_helper.rb file:

require 'rspec'
require 'datadog/ci'

Datadog.configure do |c|
  # Only activates test instrumentation on CI
  c.tracer.enabled = (ENV["DD_ENV"] == "ci")

  # Configures the tracer to ensure results delivery
  c.ci_mode.enabled = true

  # The name of the service or library under test
  c.service = 'my-ruby-app'

  # Enables the RSpec instrumentation
  c.use :rspec
end

DD_ENV=ci bundle exec rake spec

Configuration settings

The following is a list of the most important configuration settings that can be used with the tracer, either in code by using a Datadog.configure block, or using environment variables:

service: Name of the service or library under test.
Environment variable: DD_SERVICE
Default: $PROGRAM_NAME
Example: my-ruby-app
env: Name of the environment where tests are being run.
Environment variable: DD_ENV
Default: none
Examples: local, ci