Multi-threaded Touchpad watcher - taking it too seriously?

touchpad_threadded.rb

require "net/http"
require "csv"
require "addressable/uri"
require "pp"

unstable_urls = ARGV[0]
stable_urls = ARGV[1]
urls = {}
[[unstable_urls,:grep],[stable_urls,:change]].each do |urls_file,technique|
  CSV.read(urls_file).map { |url|
    url = Addressable::URI.parse url.first
    setup = urls[url] = {}
    setup[:technique] = technique
  }
end

statuses = {}
threads = []
urls.each do |url,setup|
  threads << Thread.new do
    status = statuses[url] ||= {}
    status[:last] = false
    loop do
      if status[:found] == true
        puts "Found in #{url} - time to check it!"
        `say "Found one"`
      else
        begin
          # puts "Starting #{url} using '#{setup[:technique]}' technique"
          page = Net::HTTP.get url
          # puts "Got #{url}"
        rescue Timeout::Error => e
          puts "Timeout #{url}"
          next
        end

        if setup[:technique] == :change
          unless status[:last] == false
            status[:found] = page != status[:last]
          end
          status[:last] = page

          if status[:found] == true
            puts "\n\nCHANGED\n#{url}"
          end
        else
          if match = page.scan(/(?:£|&pound;)(?:89)/)
            if status[:initial_count].nil?
              status[:initial_count] = match.length
            else
              if match.length != status[:initial_count]
                puts "\n\nMATCHED\n#{url}\n#{match.join(",")}"
                status[:found] = true
              end
            end
          end
        end
      end

      sleep 10
    end
  end
end
threads.each(&:join)