CI ready for Hanlon

Good news Hanlon developers, Hanlon Git repo is integrated with Travis CI to perform automated unit test and code validation. This step improves the current contribution model in a number of ways...

1. All pull requests are automatically tested based on RSpec
2. Easier for contributors to validate pull request and provide thumbs-up
3. Improves the overall turn around time on PR merge.

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