stay_awake

About

stay_awake requests websites periodically. It's written especially for Heroku, that puts applications to sleep when there are no requests coming in.

Installation

Gem

$ gem install stay_awake

Bundler

gem 'stay_awake'

Bundler (head)

gem 'stay_awake', :github => 'tbuehlmann/stay_awake'

Usage

buzzer = StayAwake.configure do |c|
  c.app_name = 'app_name'
end

buzzer.buzz

Sinatra

Put the StayAwake.configure block inside Sinatra's configure block, run buzz and you're done.

Rails

Put the StayAwake.configure block inside an initializer, run buzz and you're done.

Configuration Defaults

Configuration	Type	Default
app_name	String	nil
url	string	nil
request_method	Symbol	:head
interval	Integer	300
logger	Logger	Logger.new(STDOUT)
strategy	StayAwake::Strategy	StayAwake.strategies

You can either use app_name or url, but url has precedence over app_name. If just app_name is given, it will be translated to http://app_name.herokuapp.com/.

When using em-http-request, the buzzing will begin on the next_tick.

Supported HTTP Libraries

• em-http-request
• HTTParty
• net/http