From: Damphyr <damphyr@...>
Date: 2005-11-21T20:20:11+09:00
Subject: Re: url-monitoring script question

Torsten Schmidt wrote:
> Thanks for the input so far.
> 
> another possible solution come to my (ruby-beginner) mind instead of
> writing the status-code to a seperate file and parse it:
> 
> some kind of deamon-process: what about to put something like 'sleep
> 300' in the script to make an indefinetly loop. so it's easier to
> store the exit-code of the http-requests and compare them.
> 
> with this it would be possible to send 5 error-emails (25 min) and
> after that, send another email when the url 'recovers'.
> 
> What are your opinions for that solution?
What you can also do is hold the state in a simple class:
class SiteState
	def initialize
		@errors=Array.new
		@notified=false
		...
	end
	...
end
and just use Marshal to dump the class in a file between calls to the 
script.
It's the easiest way to persist information and you don't need to come 
up with a file structure and parse code (even if it is trivial)
Cheers,
V.-
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