Hi Michael, Freezing your Rails gems is probably the best way to maintain control over the version of the framework being used and is highly recommended in a shared environment. You might also consider using some free externally hosted service (i.e. Pingdom, mon.itor.us, etc.) for checking the status of the website from the end-user perspective in order to keep tabs on your site from the end-user perspective. Ultimately though, I don't know if I'd be so forgiving about a hosting company that doesn't want to communicate with their customers. :(
On Jan 4, 9:54 pm, Andrew Bloom <[email protected]> wrote: > If you can run a cron script, don't worry about actually doing > something in Ruby or Rails itself. Just write a bash script to check > the output of the 'gem rails' command for the appropriate version > number you use. > > On Jan 3, 1:11 pm, Michael Satterwhite <rails-mailing-l...@andreas- > > s.net> wrote: > > I have my rails sites hosted by Bluehost. While they are in many ways an > > ideal host for developers, they have one very major problem. > > > Their sysadmins periodically change the Rails installation without any > > warning to users. The result of this is that the sites periodically > > break - and we get no warning that this is going to happen. I don't > > fault them for updating the installation - rails is pretty new > > technology after all. By not letting us know what's happening, however, > > our sites can go down without warning. The only way to determine whether > > or not they've done something is to actually connect to the site and see > > whether or not it is still working. I've complained to them about this > > repeatedly ... their normal response is simply to ignore the complaint. > > > Is there some way to do an autocheck of the system to see if anything in > > the rails installation / configuration has changed? If there is, I could > > set this up as a cron job and do a manual check when I determined that > > something had changed. This would also minimize the distortion of the > > logs from the hits from my check. > > > Thanks in advance > > ---Michael > > -- > > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
