Rails Day 2006 Entry: Heartbeat

Charles Brian Quinn

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Jun 17, 2006

Back-End Full-Stack Web

Rails Day 2006 Entry: Heartbeat

Not only were we a Rails Day 2006 Sponsor, but we also competed.

Our entry is called Heartbeat. It’s a simple, elegant, web-based tool for monitoring and maintaining Rails-based applications. From the Heartbeat home page:

Monitor the uptime of URLs and run your application’s rake tasks. Manage your Rails applications from a web interface! Heartbeat can be extended however you want – if you can write a rake task, Heartbeat can execute it!

We’re not done with Heartbeat just yet. This is only the first 24 hours of development.

Mark Dalrymple

Reviewer Big Nerd Ranch

MarkD is a long-time Unix and Mac developer, having worked at AOL, Google, and several start-ups over the years. He’s the author of Advanced Mac OS X Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, over 100 blog posts for Big Nerd Ranch, and an occasional speaker at conferences. Believing in the power of community, he’s a co-founder of CocoaHeads, an international Mac and iPhone meetup, and runs the Pittsburgh PA chapter. In his spare time, he plays orchestral and swing band music.

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