Can you install/use Travis Cli inside travis script?

Question

As a part of my my customized travis build I would like to use Travis command-line client inside after_success script. I need that to trigger some operations on other travis jobs (other repositories) after each successfull build in this particular repo. So two questions:

• Is it possible at all?
• If so is there any smart or quick way to do that?

As far as I know Travis Cli has several ruby dependencies that may not be available by default. But perhaps it is by default installed on travis VMs.

Answer 1

Yes, this is completely possible. However, this would only work for language: ruby jobs.

For your specific case, you can do:

after_success:
  # install travis cli
  - gem install --no-document travis
  # setup travis shell autocomplete
  - echo "y" | travis --version
  # do travis cli stuff
  - travis do stuff

If you have a project using another language, then this becomes much more complicated.