lxcid

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gorsuch

check_http: A Small Part of the Modern Monitoring Pipeline

[note: this was originally published on 08/27/2012. Other writing can be found here.]

Monitoring tooling has been a fascination of mine since I began hacking on computing systems. Every ops engineer wants to write their own. I get that. I'm one of those guys, too.

However, these endeavours always end up spitting out large, monolithic applications that just aren't as good as the already existing (and somewhat crappy) monolithic applications. I'd prefer to avoid that approach, if only to make it a point that the monitoring story can never be finalized. We will never reach an end state, but the more flexible our tooling the better.

Traditional Unix philsophy gives us something to go on here. What if, instead of writing large applications, we just wrote a bunch of tiny tools. AND - rather than writing each of these tiny tools as sexy network daemons (which

dinks

1. Configure Tire to use the Bonsai ElasticSearch Heroku add-on

gem 'tire'

config/initializers/bonsai.rb

ENV['ELASTICSEARCH_URL'] = ENV['BONSAI_URL']

xdite

1. Get You a Hug, Every Friday

FridayHug.com http://fridayhug.com

2. Run From a Single File

The Smallest Rails App http://thesmallestrailsapp.com

%w(action_controller/railtie coderay).each &method(:require)

rogercampos

def saop
  save_and_open_page
end

def screenshot
  page.driver.render("/home/roger/shot.jpg", :full => true)
end

def select_should_have(locator, text)
  node = page.find_field(locator)

domenic

"use strict";

// Uses jQuery and Q.

var API_KEY = "whatever";

function getFlickrResponseAsync(method, responseProperty, params) {
    var deferred = Q.defer();

    $.ajax("http://www.flickr.com/services/rest/", {

them0nk

#Model 

@user.should have(1).error_on(:username) # Checks whether there is an error in username 
@user.errors[:username].should include("can't be blank")  # check for the error message 

#Rendering
response.should render_template(:index)

#Redirecting 
response.should redirect_to(movies_path)

cypriss

How we upgraded UserVoice, a Rails 2.3.14 app, to Ruby 1.9.3.

Blog post here

tmaier

# Renders an ItemContainer as a <ul> element and its containing items as <li> elements.
# Prepared to use inside the topbar of Twitter Bootstrap http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/#navigation
#
# Register the renderer and use following code in your view:
#   render_navigation(level: 1..2, renderer: :bootstrap_topbar_list, expand_all: true)
class BootstrapTopbarList < SimpleNavigation::Renderer::Base

  def render(item_container)
    if options[:is_subnavigation]
      ul_class = "dropdown-menu"

dhh

Hi David,
I came across your profile online and wanted to reach out about Development
Opportunities here at Groupon. The company is growing, and we're always
looking for folks with solid skills that can make positive contribution to
our continued success. Any chance you'd be open to a quick conversation
about opportunities, or for any possible networking potential? If so, let me
know when you're free and we can set up a time to chat. Also, if you are
interested, it would be great if you could forward a current resume over
that I can take a look at. I look forward to hearing back from you! Please
let me know if you have any questions.