If you can run a cron script, don't worry about actually doing something in Ruby or Rails itself. Just write a bash script to check the output of the 'gem rails' command for the appropriate version number you use.
On Jan 3, 1:11 pm, Michael Satterwhite <rails-mailing-l...@andreas- s.net> wrote: > I have my rails sites hosted by Bluehost. While they are in many ways an > ideal host for developers, they have one very major problem. > > Their sysadmins periodically change the Rails installation without any > warning to users. The result of this is that the sites periodically > break - and we get no warning that this is going to happen. I don't > fault them for updating the installation - rails is pretty new > technology after all. By not letting us know what's happening, however, > our sites can go down without warning. The only way to determine whether > or not they've done something is to actually connect to the site and see > whether or not it is still working. I've complained to them about this > repeatedly ... their normal response is simply to ignore the complaint. > > Is there some way to do an autocheck of the system to see if anything in > the rails installation / configuration has changed? If there is, I could > set this up as a cron job and do a manual check when I determined that > something had changed. This would also minimize the distortion of the > logs from the hits from my check. > > Thanks in advance > ---Michael > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
