technomancy / watcher_in_the_water

Run the following if you haven't already:

gem sources -a http://gems.github.com

Install the gem(s):

sudo gem install technomancy-watcher_in_the_water

Description:	Watches things for you... things that live on the other end of URLs mostly.
Homepage:	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watcher_in_the_Water
Clone URL:	git://github.com/technomancy/watcher_in_the_water.git Give this clone URL to anyone. `git clone git://github.com/technomancy/watcher_in_the_water.git`

Tweak the gemspec to rebuild.

technomancy (author)

Sat Sep 06 21:28:32 -0700 2008

commit 3f05f31f29af3a24577816b0144b5e8f5789a23d
tree a37146b0d6e1ab619aada6b58e50284af247cd17
parent e3865198880c25a85674a33c66e6746d78433de9

watcher_in_the_water /

name	age	history message
.gitignore	Sat Sep 06 21:07:00 -0700 2008	added gemspec; ready for release [technomancy]
COPYING	Sat Sep 06 21:01:46 -0700 2008	had grabbed the wrong license by mistake. [technomancy]
History.txt	Sat Sep 06 17:59:34 -0700 2008	Initial commit [technomancy]
Manifest.txt	Sat Sep 06 20:59:19 -0700 2008	Removed test artifacts, added a live test skele... [technomancy]
README.rdoc	Sat Sep 06 21:28:32 -0700 2008	Tweak the gemspec to rebuild. [technomancy]
Rakefile	Sat Sep 06 20:59:19 -0700 2008	Removed test artifacts, added a live test skele... [technomancy]
bin/	Sat Sep 06 20:59:19 -0700 2008	Removed test artifacts, added a live test skele... [technomancy]
lib/	Sat Sep 06 20:59:19 -0700 2008	Removed test artifacts, added a live test skele... [technomancy]
test/	Sat Sep 06 20:59:19 -0700 2008	Removed test artifacts, added a live test skele... [technomancy]
watcher_in_the_water.gemspec	Sat Sep 06 21:28:32 -0700 2008	Tweak the gemspec to rebuild. [technomancy]

README.rdoc

Watcher In The Water - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watcher_in_the_Water

Description

Want to know when the page at a given URL changes? The Watcher in the Water will tell you over Jabber; just create a ~/.watcher/config.yml file and toss watcher_in_the_water into your crontab!

  ---
  jid: watcher-in-the-water@jabber.org
  password: mellon
  recipient: phil@hagelb.org
  urls:
  - http://rubyconf.org

Issues

XMPP4R takes a really long time to authenticate with my Jabber server. Maybe it’s just me though… No idea. This shouldn’t run more than once an hour or so, whatever; shouldn’t matter.

Install

  $ sudo gem install technomancy-watcher_in_the_water --source=http://gems.github.com

TODO

Finish live tests?
Just send a diff over IM?
Only look at a given XPath?

Author

By Phil Hagelberg (http://technomancy.us)