Update for April 10th 2013 outage

README.md

@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ check-if-learn-is-not-down
 
 On Tuesday, January 29th 2013, https://learn.uwaterloo.ca went down. Without our beloved Learn, panic struck the hearts of all Univeristy of Waterloo students. This Ruby script checks if Learn is still down every 5 minutes. If it finds Learn not down, it ensures near instantaneous rejoice by sending you an email.
 
-EDIT: As of February 1st, Learn is back. However, this tool may once again be useful if Learn goes down again.
+EDIT: As of February 1st 2013, Learn is back. However, this tool may once again be useful if Learn goes down again.
+
+EDIT2: As of April 10th 2013, Learn is down again.
 
 ## Setup
 Make sure you have [Ruby](http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/) and [nokogiri](http://nokogiri.org/tutorials/installing_nokogiri.html)

check_if_learn_is_not_down.rb

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 Gmail.new(address, password) do |gmail|
   puts "Logged in"
   br = Mechanize.new
+  br.read_timeout = 20
 
   loop do
     puts "#{ Time.now }: Checking Learn..."
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@
     rescue
       errored = true
     end
-    if page.body =~ /maintenance\.jpg/ || errored # maintenance.jpg == that blue gear we are all tired of
+    if errored || page.nil? || page.body =~ /maintenance\.jpg/ # maintenance.jpg == that blue gear we are all tired of
       errored = false
       puts "#{ Time.now }: Still down. Waiting 5 minutes."
       sleep(300) # wait 5 minutes