Ruby script to automatically restart a travis-ci build

travis_ci_restart_build.rb

# The script below checks a given build is running or not
# and restarts the build of not running
#
# This script is used to run a particular build for the duration of a day
# to catch all randombly failing tests
#
# To get access token, see here https://github.com/travis-ci/travis.rb#token

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# for private repositories users
require 'travis/pro'

Travis::Pro.access_token = 'your access token'
repo = Travis::Pro::Repository.find('organization/repository')
build = repo.build(n) # where n is the travis-ci build number
build.restart unless build.running?
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# for public repositories
require 'travis'

Travis.access_token = 'your access token'
repo = Travis::Repository.find('username/repository')
build = repo.build(n) # where n is the travis-ci build number
build.restart unless build.running?
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