diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 92e53577..6ddcfcf5 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -9,9 +9,19 @@ services:
   - postgresql
   - memcached
 env:
-  - ORM_DRIVER=sqlite3   ORM_SOURCE=$TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/orm_test.db
-  - ORM_DRIVER=postgres ORM_SOURCE="user=postgres dbname=orm_test sslmode=disable"
+  global:
+    - GO_REPO_FULLNAME="github.com/astaxie/beego"
+  matrix:
+    - ORM_DRIVER=sqlite3   ORM_SOURCE=$TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/orm_test.db
+    - ORM_DRIVER=postgres ORM_SOURCE="user=postgres dbname=orm_test sslmode=disable"
 before_install:
+   # link the local repo with ${GOPATH}/src/<namespace>/<repo>
+ - GO_REPO_NAMESPACE=${GO_REPO_FULLNAME%/*}
+   # relies on GOPATH to contain only one directory...
+ - mkdir -p ${GOPATH}/src/${GO_REPO_NAMESPACE}
+ - ln -sv ${TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR} ${GOPATH}/src/${GO_REPO_FULLNAME}
+ - cd ${GOPATH}/src/${GO_REPO_FULLNAME}
+   # get and build ssdb
  - git clone git://github.com/ideawu/ssdb.git
  - cd ssdb
  - make