Syspec: System Specifications & Tests using a Rake-like batch file

Posted by Mathew Abonyi Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:45:43 GMT

Syspec lets you write a batch file a lot like a Rake file, but in common HTTP-style language, to test the existence and proper functioning of all the domains, subdomains, their pages and responses. This project is still very much in its infancy, but I decided to get it out there to get some feedback while I use it to track production servers. This is a sample Syspecfile:

check :"www.rubyonrails.org" do
  accept 200
  get "/"
  accept 404
  get "/syspec"
  get "/lacrima"
end

The above will check that http://www.rubyonrails.org/ responds with 200 and http://www.rubyonrails.org/syspec and http://www.rubyonrails.org/lacrima respond with 404. You can have multiple checks with the same domain and it does not have to be a symbol, though I prefer it that way.

Currently, Syspec features the following:
  • accept(*codes) – response code should be among these codes
  • get, post, delete, put (uses fetch(:request_method, url))
Upcoming features:
  • login “username”, “password”
  • body matching
  • forms
You can grab a copy of it directly from my SVN repository here: 
  svn co http://mabs29.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/gems/syspec .
Or download the gem from within the SVN repository (later will be moved to rubyforge): 
  svn export http://mabs29.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/gems/syspec/versions/syspec-0.2.1.gem .

Enjoy!

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