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Install the Ruby client with the gem command:

gem install ddtrace

If you're using Bundler, just update your Gemfile as follows:

    source 'https://rubygems.org'

    # tracing gem
    gem 'ddtrace'

To use a development/preview version, use:

    gem 'ddtrace', :github => 'DataDog/dd-trace-rb', :branch => 'me/my-feature-branch'

If you aren't using a supported framework instrumentation, you may want to to manually instrument your code. Adding tracing to your code is very simple. As an example, let’s imagine we have a web server and we want to trace requests to the home page:

    require 'ddtrace'
    require 'sinatra'
    require 'active_record'

    # a generic tracer that you can use across your application
    tracer = Datadog.tracer

    get '/' do
      tracer.trace('web.request') do |span|
        # set some span metadata
        span.service = 'my-web-site'
        span.resource = '/'
        span.set_tag('http.method', request.request_method)

        # trace the activerecord call
        tracer.trace('posts.fetch') do
          @posts = Posts.order(created_at: :desc).limit(10)
        end

        # trace the template rendering
        tracer.trace('template.render') do
          erb :index
        end
      end
    end

Instead of doing the above manually, whenever an integration is available, you can activate it. The example above would become:

    require 'ddtrace'
    require 'sinatra'
    require 'active_record'

    Datadog::Monkey.patch_all # monkey patch all available integrations

    # now write your code naturally, it's traced automatically
    get '/' do
      @posts = Posts.order(created_at: :desc).limit(10)
      erb :index
    end

To know if a given framework or lib is supported by our client, please consult our integrations list.

Configure your environment through:

$ bundle install
$ appraisal install

You can launch tests using the following Rake commands:

$ rake test:main                                      # tracer tests
$ appraisal rails<version>-<database> rake test:rails # tests Rails matrix
$ appraisal contrib rake test:redis                   # tests Redis integration
...

Run rake --tasks for the list of available Rake tasks.

Available appraisals are:

• contrib: default for integrations
• contrib-old: default for integrations, with version suited for old Ruby (possibly unmaintained) versions
• rails3-mysql2: Rails3 with Mysql
• rails3-postgres: Rails 3 with Postgres
• rails3-postgres-redis: Rails 3 with Postgres and Redis
• rails3-postgres-sidekiq: Rails 3 with Postgres and Sidekiq
• rails4-mysql2: Rails4 with Mysql
• rails4-postgres: Rails 4 with Postgres
• rails4-postgres-redis: Rails 4 with Postgres and Redis
• rails4-postgres-sidekiq: Rails 4 with Postgres and Sidekiq
• rails5-mysql2: Rails5 with Mysql
• rails5-postgres: Rails 5 with Postgres
• rails5-postgres-redis: Rails 5 with Postgres and Redis
• rails5-postgres-sidekiq: Rails 5 with Postgres and Sidekiq

The test suite requires many backing services (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, ...) and we're using docker and docker-compose to start these services in the CI. To launch properly the test matrix, please install docker and docker-compose using the instructions provided by your platform. Then launch them through:

$ docker-compose up -d

We also enforce the Ruby community-driven style guide through Rubocop. Simply launch:

$ rake rubocop