Getting an nsqd instance on Travis

.travis.yml

@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 language: python
 python:
   - "2.7"
+env:
+  - NSQ_VERSION=0.2.26
+# Get some pre-requisites
+before_install: "bash scripts/travis/before-install.sh"
 # command to install dependencies
 install: "pip install -r requirements.txt"
 # command to run tests

scripts/travis/before-install.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#! /usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Download and install the NSQ binaries
+export NSQ_DIST="nsq-${NSQ_VERSION}.linux-$(go env GOARCH).go1.2"
+wget "https://s3.amazonaws.com/bitly-downloads/nsq/${NSQ_DIST}.tar.gz"
+tar xf "${NSQ_DIST}.tar.gz"
+(
+    cd "${NSQ_DIST}"
+    sudo cp bin/* /usr/local/bin/
+)
+
+# Start nsqlookupd and disown it
+nsqlookupd > /dev/null 2> /dev/null &
+disown
+
+# And an instance of nsqd
+nsqd --lookupd-tcp-address=127.0.0.1:4160 > /dev/null 2> /dev/null &
+disown