Quick and dirty setup so it's a bit quicker to use vagrant. I'll clean this up more later.

.travis.yml

@@ -3,12 +3,6 @@ cache: bundler
 rvm:
   - jruby
 before_script:
-  - wget http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=org/apache/derby/derby/10.12.1.1/derby-10.12.1.1.jar -O /tmp/derby.jar
-  - export JDBC_DERBY_JAR=/tmp/derby.jar
-  - sudo apt-get install mysql-server  -qq -y
-  - echo "create database logstash_output_jdbc_test;" | mysql -u root
-  - wget http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=mysql/mysql-connector-java/5.1.38/mysql-connector-java-5.1.38.jar -O /tmp/mysql.jar
-  - export JDBC_MYSQL_JAR=/tmp/mysql.jar
-  - wget http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=org/xerial/sqlite-jdbc/3.8.11.2/sqlite-jdbc-3.8.11.2.jar -O /tmp/sqlite.jar
-  - export JDBC_SQLITE_JAR=/tmp/sqlite.jar
+  - ./scripts/travis-before_script.sh
+  - source ./scripts/travis-variables.sh
 script: bundle exec rspec

README.md

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ See CHANGELOG.md
 Released versions are available via rubygems, and typically tagged.
 
 For development:
-  - See master branch for logstash v5
+  - See master branch for logstash v5 (currently **development only**)
   - See v2.x branch for logstash v2
   - See v1.5 branch for logstash v1.5 
   - See v1.4 branch for logstash 1.4
@@ -36,14 +36,17 @@ For development:
   - And then configure (examples below)
 
 ## Running tests
-At this time tests only run against Derby, in an in-memory database.
-Acceptance tests for individual database engines will be added over time.
+For development tests are recommended to run inside a virtual machine (Vagrantfile is included in the repo), as it requires
+access to various database engines and could completely destroy any data in a live system.
 
-Assuming valid jruby is installed
-  - First time, issue `jruby -S bundle install` to install dependencies
-  - Next, download Derby jar from https://db.apache.org/derby/
-  - Run the tests `JDBC_DERBY_JAR=path/to/derby.jar jruby -S rspec`
-  - Optionally add the `JDBC_DEBUG=1` env variable to add logging to stdout
+If you have vagrant available:
+  - `vagrant up`
+  - `vagrant ssh`
+  - `cd /vagrant`
+  - `gem install bundler`
+  - `cd /vagrant && bundle install`
+  - `./scripts/travis-before_script.sh && source ./scripts/travis-variables.sh`
+  - `bundle exec rspec`
 
 ## Configuration options
 

Vagrantfile

@@ -9,7 +9,5 @@ Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
     gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3
     curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby=jruby-1.7
     usermod -a -G rvm vagrant
-    gem install bundler
-    cd /vagrant && bundle install
   EOP
 end

logstash-output-jdbc.gemspec

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.version = "1.0.0.pre"
   s.licenses = [ "Apache License (2.0)" ]
   s.summary = "This plugin allows you to output to SQL, via JDBC"
-  s.description = "This gem is a logstash plugin required to be installed on top of the Logstash core pipeline using $LS_HOME/bin/plugin install gemname. This gem is not a stand-alone program"
+  s.description = "This gem is a logstash plugin required to be installed on top of the Logstash core pipeline using $LS_HOME/bin/logstash-plugin install 'logstash-output-jdbc'. This gem is not a stand-alone program"
   s.authors = ["the_angry_angel"]
   s.email = "karl+github@theangryangel.co.uk"
   s.homepage = "https://github.com/theangryangel/logstash-output-jdbc"

scripts/travis-before_script.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+wget http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=org/apache/derby/derby/10.12.1.1/derby-10.12.1.1.jar -O /tmp/derby.jar
+
+sudo apt-get install mysql-server -qq -y
+echo "create database logstash_output_jdbc_test;" | mysql -u root
+
+wget http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=mysql/mysql-connector-java/5.1.38/mysql-connector-java-5.1.38.jar -O /tmp/mysql.jar
+wget http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=org/xerial/sqlite-jdbc/3.8.11.2/sqlite-jdbc-3.8.11.2.jar -O /tmp/sqlite.jar

scripts/travis-variables.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+export JDBC_DERBY_JAR=/tmp/derby.jar
+export JDBC_MYSQL_JAR=/tmp/mysql.jar
+export JDBC_SQLITE_JAR=/tmp/sqlite.jar