Troch

Troch is a website monitoring tool. Troch is open source.

Demo

http://troch.herokuapp.com

Features

• Watch Site
  • check difference between current html body and old html body
  • check difference between current title and old title
  • determine whether keyword is present
• Get Domain Expired Date
• Get SSL Expired Date
• Get Google PageRank

Requirements

• Ruby 1.9.2 or 1.9.3
• MySQL or PostgreSQL
• Redis

Installation

1. Download

    $ git clone https://github.com/kano4/troch.git troch
   

2. Install gems

    $ cd troch
    $ bundle install --without development test --deployment
   

3. Set up smtp

    $ cp config/settings.example.yml config/settings.yml
   

   Edit config/settings.yml . For example,

    email:
      from:    'troch@example.com'
      address: 'smtp.example.com'
      domain:  'example.com'
      port:    25
   

4. Set up database

    $ cp config/database.mysql.yml config/database.yml
   

   Edit config/database.yml . For example,

    production:
      adapter: mysql2
      database: troch
      username: troch
      password: troch
      encoding: utf8
      host: localhost
   

   Create database

    $ RAILS_ENV="production" bundle exec rake db:setup
   

5. Start web server

    $ bundle exec unicorn_rails -E production -D
   

   View at: http://localhost:8080/ Or install passenger and edit apache or nginx config.

6. Start worker

   Copy startup script.

    (Red Hat)
    # cp ext/troch/troch-worker.redhat /etc/init.d/troch-worker
   
    (Ubuntu)
    # cp ext/troch/troch-worker.ubuntu /etc/init.d/troch-worker
   

   Edit TROCH_ROOT in /etc/init.d/troch-worker . For example,

    TROCH_ROOT="/srv/troch"
   

   Add troch-worker into startup script and start troch-worker.

    (Red Hat)
    # chkconfig --add troch-worker
    # /etc/init.d/troch-worker start
   
    (Ubuntu)
    # sysv-rc-conf troch-worker on
    # /etc/init.d/troch-worker start
   

7. Health check (option)

   Copy startup script.

    (Red Hat)
    # cp ext/troch/troch-health-checker.redhat /etc/init.d/troch-health-checker
   
    (Ubuntu)
    # cp ext/troch/troch-health-checker.ubuntu /etc/init.d/troch-health-checker
   

   Edit TROCH_ROOT in /etc/init.d/troch-health-checker . For example,

    TROCH_ROOT="/srv/troch"
   

   Add troch-health-checker into startup script and start troch-health-checker.

    (Red Hat)
    # chkconfig --add troch-health-checker
    # /etc/init.d/troch-health-checker start
   
    (Ubuntu)
    # sysv-rc-conf troch-health-checker on
    # /etc/init.d/troch-health-checker start
   

Copyright

Copyright 2012 Shinji Kano. See LICENSE for details.