Is there an easy way to check the status code of another website (e.g. http://google.com) in Ruby on Rails?
Ideally, the list of URLs to check would be pulled from a DB and processed via CRON (or equivalent).
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require 'net/http'
http = Net::HTTP.new('www.google.com',80)
response = http.request_get('/')
p response.status
Slightly more efficient (traffic wise) might be:
response = http.request_head('/')
p response.status
Source: http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/classes/Net/HTTP.html#M001403
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Trent Scott
Thanks! Where is the best place to put this to automate it (e.g. via CRON)? Does it belong in a Ruby file of its own?
ebeland
If it is using the database, and activerecord makes sense, you could put it in a rails project and the stub that loads everything in a file in /script. Have the stub use require to load your worker and start it running. The files I usually put into app/workers/someworker. I launch this type of thing with a call from cron setup via crontab -e.
cbliard
It is not
response.status but response.code, see ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.8.7/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/Net/…You can access the request env by calling :
def index
@req = (request.env).inspect
end
# index.html.erb
<%= @req %>
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Augusto Samamé Barrientos
The question is about checking the response code of an external website not about getting the env for a local request