Testotron

I need to automatically test my servers and I didn't quite find what I needed anywhere.

Testotron can detect basic errors in your configuration, like a server not starting or a blocked port.

Testotron on RubyGems: https://rubygems.org/gems/testotron.

Installation

Just run gem install testotron or add testotron to your Gemfile, and you should be good.

Usage example

#!/usr/bin/ruby
# Load Testotron
require 'testotron'

Testotron.test do |t|
	# First set report modes.
	t.report_with :local_mail, :stderr, :xosdutil

	# Test several pages on an alternate HTTP port
	t.http "example.org", port: 8080, requests: ["http://example.org", "http://something.example.org/else.html"]

	# Test default HTTP port
	t.http "example.org"

	# Test default HTTP port, retry 10 times instead of the default 3 times
	t.http "example.org", retries: 10

	# Test default HTTP port with timeout of 10 seconds (2 secs is default)
	t.http "example.org", timeout: 10

	# You can ask the tests to run quietly (without messages on STDOUT)
	t.quiet = true # or t.quiet!

	puts "OK so far." if t.ok?
	puts "Errors in previous tests." if t.errors?

	# Test some nondefault page
	t.http "example.org", port: 80, requests: "http://example.org/hello/world.html"

	# Test that some text is present in the response.
	t.http "example.org", grep: "hello"

	# Test a SMTP server, with an optional alternate port
	t.smtp "example.org"
	t.smtp "example.org", 3315
end

# Run a single test.
# Single tests are quiet by default
Testotron.test :smtp, "example.org", 3315

Supported report modes

• local_mail: Mails you a simple e-mail to (your username)@localhost.
• stderr: Writes a one-line error message to STDERR.
• xosdutil: Runs xosdutil echo (error message). I'm sorry if you don't happen to be amongst the numerous ranks of xosdutil users :)