While there are plenty of URL monitor’s available to verify if your site is working or not, many of them cost money. I was recently debugging a monitoring issue and found that I needed a simple URL monitor which would return the HTTP response code only, and provide some basic logging as well so that I wouldn’t have to sift through two day’s worth of shell output. Long story short this was a temporary solution and not one that I had any desire to spend money on so I threw together the following script. I wrote it in ruby because I like its logger library which gives enough options and...

Here is a pretty basic example of a ruby script, which contains a function, defining a variable, grabbing data from standard input, and calling the function. #!/usr/bin/ruby   $variable = STDIN.gets   def function(variable) puts "Your STDIN is: #{variable}" end   function($variable) Example: [h1tman@h1tman ruby]$ echo "TEST" | ./stdin.rb Your STDIN is: TEST [h1tman@h1tman ruby]$