Ruby Tests

Ruby test instrumentation is in beta. There are no billing implications for instrumenting Ruby tests during this period.

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', "~> 1.0"

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.tracing.enabled = (ENV["DD_ENV"] == "ci")

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

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

  # Enables the Cucumber instrumentation
  c.ci.instrument :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.tracing.enabled = (ENV["DD_ENV"] == "ci")

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

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

  # Enables the RSpec instrumentation
  c.ci.instrument :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

The following environment variable can be used to configure the location of the Datadog Agent:

DD_TRACE_AGENT_URL: Datadog Agent URL for trace collection in the form http://hostname:port.
Default: http://localhost:8126

All other Datadog Tracer configuration options can also be used.

Collecting Git metadata

Datadog uses Git information for visualizing your test results and grouping them by repository, branch, and commit. Git metadata is automatically collected by the test instrumentation from CI provider environment variables and the local .git folder in the project path, if available.

If you are running tests in non-supported CI providers or with no .git folder, you can set the Git information manually using environment variables. These environment variables take precedence over any auto-detected information. Set the following environment variables to provide Git information:

DD_GIT_REPOSITORY_URL: URL of the repository where the code is stored. Both HTTP and SSH URLs are supported.
Example: git@github.com:MyCompany/MyApp.git, https://github.com/MyCompany/MyApp.git
DD_GIT_BRANCH: Git branch being tested. Leave empty if providing tag information instead.
Example: develop
DD_GIT_TAG: Git tag being tested (if applicable). Leave empty if providing branch information instead.
Example: 1.0.1
DD_GIT_COMMIT_SHA: Full commit hash.
Example: a18ebf361cc831f5535e58ec4fae04ffd98d8152
DD_GIT_COMMIT_MESSAGE: Commit message.
Example: Set release number
DD_GIT_COMMIT_AUTHOR_NAME: Commit author name.
Example: John Smith
DD_GIT_COMMIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL: Commit author email.
Example: john@example.com
DD_GIT_COMMIT_AUTHOR_DATE: Commit author date in ISO 8601 format.
Example: 2021-03-12T16:00:28Z
DD_GIT_COMMIT_COMMITTER_NAME: Commit committer name.
Example: Jane Smith
DD_GIT_COMMIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL: Commit committer email.
Example: jane@example.com
DD_GIT_COMMIT_COMMITTER_DATE: Commit committer date in ISO 8601 format.
Example: 2021-03-12T16:00:28Z