Ruby code to trigger an event through the API.

pd-event-creator.rb

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require 'json'

subdomain="insert-here"
api_key="insert-here"

endpoint="https://events.pagerduty.com/generic/2010-04-15/create_event.json"
service_access_key="insert-here"
incident_key="insert-here"
subject="Emergency in the server room. Please resolve"
details_hash={"ping time" => "1200ms", "load average" => "200ms"} 

def curl_command_post_schedules(token_string,schedule_json,endpoint)
    curl_command="curl -H \"Content-type: application/json\" -X POST \ -d #{schedule_json} \"#{endpoint}\""
end

def hash_to_json(hash)
  string=""
  hash.each do |key,value|
    string+="\"#{key}\": \"#{value}\", "
  end
  string
end
    
sched_json= "'{ \
              \"service_key\": \"#{service_access_key}\", \
              \"incident_key\": \"#{incident_key}\", \
              \"event_type\": \"trigger\", \
              \"description\": \"#{subject}.\", \
              \"details\": { \
                #{hash_to_json(details_hash)} \
                } \
              }'"
               
curl_string = curl_command_post_schedules(api_key,sched_json,endpoint)
puts curl_string

system(curl_string)