alive

A Deployable Service™ that runs scheduled assertions on fetched HTTP content.

#Direct Usage

• Fork bnorton/alive from GitHub to {{username}}
• Rename all instances of {{username}} with yours
• Create a heroku app with the multi buildpack (to support both the ruby and phantomjs buildpacks)

git clone git@github.com:{{username}}/alive.git
heroku create {{username}}-alive --buildpack https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-buildpack-multi.git

Required:

• Add a MongoDB database => heroku addons:create mongohq
• Add a username and password for the new mongo database
• Add a Redis database => heroku addons:create heroku-redis:hobby-dev

Optional:

• Add a SendGrid account => heroku addons:create sendgrid:starter
• Add a new Incoming WebHook integration to Slack and add the SLACK_URL and the SLACK_CHANNEL to the heroku config
• Add a Bugsnag account => heroku addons:create bugsnag

heroku config # and grab your mongodb url
heroku config:set RAILS_ENV=production \
  RACK_ENV=production \
  MONGODB_URL={{mongodb url}} \
  REDIS_URL={{redis url}} \
  SECRET_KEY_BASE=$(rake secret) \
  SLACK_URL={{slack url}} \
  SLACK_CHANNEL={{slack channel}} \
  BUILDPACK_URL=https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-buildpack-multi.git

• Deploy your first version with git push heroku master
• If setting up CircleCI with heroku deployment modify circle.yml to have your app-name

Making Customizations (+ pull request)

To run the RSpec / Capybara tests you'll need:

• phantomjs installed
• bundle install (maybe gem install bundler first)
• rake runs the existing test suite
• Add tests
• Run tests
• Add implementation
• Run tests
• Commit / Push / Pull request

Reporting Complex Issues

• Isolate the problem logically
• Isolate the problem with a failing test