production_ping.rake

namespace :operations do

  desc 'Operations: call this from cron job to make sure the site is up and running'
  task (:production_ping => :environment) do   
    # to set up the cron job
    # crontab -e
 
    require 'uri'
    require 'net/http'
    require 'net/https'

    message = "Checking site at #{Time.now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z")}\n"
    message += "Automated check from: " + `hostname` 
    
    begin
      url = URI.parse('https://www.TODO.com/login')
      path = "/login?operations=production_ping"
      http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, 443)
      http.use_ssl = true
      response = http.get(path, nil)
      message += "HTTP Status: #{response.code} for https://#{url.host}#{path}\n"
      
      #puts "RESPONSE: #{response.code}"
      #puts response.body 
         
      if response.code != "200" then
        raise "NOT 200 was #{response.code}"      
      end
    rescue Exception => ex
      message += "Failure: #{ex.message}\n"
      Notifier.deliver_production_ping_failure('[email protected]', message)
    end
    
    # puts message
    `echo "#{message}" >> _production_ping_log.txt`
  end

end