Stoplight

A super simple status system

Use it to to monitor your builds, your scripts, or whether you are in or out of the office.
Really it's up to you.

Features

Ultra-volatile datastore, resets whenever I deploy a new one, or heroku kills my instances.
Who cares, this is about what's going on right now.. any old messages are yesterdays news.

Usage

Think of the name of your app, now think of that name when you see the word 'myapp'

** GET /myapp ** returns green or red or yellow.
** PUT /myapp?status=green ** sets status green
** PUT /myapp?status=yellow ** sets status yellow
** PUT /myapp?status=red ** sets status red
** POST /myapp ** creates an app if there is none (put does this too)
** DELETE /myapp ** deletes an app

Need a frontend?

** GET /myapp/front ** returns a pretty little javascript to keep you updated on your apps status

Usage Hints!

add this to your .autotest file, for perpetual greenosity

`require 'rest_client'                                                                                

@appname = 'myapp'

Autotest.add_hook :red do
  RestClient.put "http://stoplightapp.heroku.com/#{@appname}", :status => 'red'
end

Autotest.add_hook :green do
  RestClient.put "http://stoplightapp.heroku.com/#{@appname}", :status => 'green'
end`

Need Security?

** POST /myapp?secret=something ** makes a stoplight _ only_you _ can change the colour of.. until the app resets( which it does at random)
** PUT /myapp?status=green ** 403 access denied!
** PUT /myapp?status=green&secret=something ** updates the status
** PUT /myapp?status=green&secret=somethingelse ** access denied!
** DELETE /myapp ** 403 access denied
** DELETE /myapp?secret=something ** 200 done deal!

How to tell if the server has reset, or you've been snaked

if you use a secret on something created without a secret, 410 GONE because this is not your resource
if you use a secret on something with a different secret, 403 forbidden and you've been snaked!!

Awesome, how bout some ssl?

Sorry, no ssl

learn more at: https://github.com/graemeworthy/Stoplight