📦 gertig / Pulse

What is Pulse?

Pulse is a Sinatra application that can be used to check to see if a website is currently up or down and then send you a Text message to alert of its change in status.

Getting Started

Start application with:

$ git clone git://github.com/AndrewGertig/pulse.git $ cd pulse $ bundle $ createdb yourappname Using Foreman, .env, and a Procfile $ foreman start

To access and change data via the console

$ irb $ require './app.rb' Create your first Site

$ Site.create(url: "http://andrewgertig.com") Open your browser to whichever PORT you are using, (for me I have it set to PORT=5002 in my .env file so http://localhost:5002) and you should see something like this:

Green means the site is up, Red means it's down. I used to own two.io but couldn't ever figure out what to do with it :disappointed:

Twilio Setup

• Get a Twilio SMS account
• Add your phone number and keys to your .env file
• Add your Twilio keys to Heroku config

SendGrid Setup

If you want emails to be sent, configure SendGrid.

• Run heroku addons:add sendgrid:starter
• Set your email address ENV variable: heroku config:add FROM_EMAIL_ADDRESS=me@here.com TO_EMAIL_ADDRESS=you@there.com

Mandrill Setup

If you want emails to be sent by Mandrill by MailChimp setup the Heroku addon like this.

• Run heroku addons:add mandrill:starter
• Set your email address ENV variable: heroku config:add FROM_EMAIL_ADDRESS=me@here.com TO_EMAIL_ADDRESS=you@there.com

Heroku Scheduler

In order to check to see if a site is "UP" or "DOWN" you will need to setup a scheduled rake task using Heroku's Scheduler

$ heroku addons:add scheduler:standard $ heroku addons:open scheduler Create a Job that runs "rake check\_sites" every 10 minutes, it should look like this once you are done:

Configuring Your Heroku Instance

To use the Datamapper methods (below), you need to remotely connect to the console on Heroku. To do this, run: heroku run console then require './app.rb'

Datamapper Basics

Create

$ Site.create(url: "http://andrewgertig.com")

Find

$ Site.get(1) $ Site.first(:url => "http://andrewgertig.com") Update $ Site.get(1).update(url: "http://gertig.com")

Destroy

$ site = Site.get(5) $ site.destroy # => true

Datamapper Documentation