KeepAlive

Gem that will tell you whether the app/db is alive or not

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'keep_alive'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install keep_alive

Usage

add the following in initializers/keep_alive.rb

KeepAlive.config do |config|
  config.model(ModelName)
end

in routes.rb

keep_alive

How to use ?

localhost:3000/keep_alive

When to use ?

You can use this url for your performance monitoring tool like NewRelic. 
So that NewRelic will not hit homepage for every 10 secs or so.    

Contributing

  1. Fork it
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request