rails plugin to handle: pinging google regarding sitemap pinging pingomatic about new posts pinging uri's & returning true if alive, false if not install gems ------------ to install required gems run rake pingify:install only requires 'net-ping' how-to ------ init the class object with @p = Pingify.new then use @p.ping('www.google.com') docs ---- notify_pingomatic # ping pingomatic # returns... # => nothing, simply sends # notes... # => setup only to ping in production mode notify_sitemap # ping sitemap # returns... # => nothing, simply sends # notes... # => setup only to ping in production mode ping # ping uri # returns.. # => nil (no uri specified) # => flase (uri did not respond, down) # => true (uri responded, alive) # notes.. # => uses local machine's ping program to send ping notes ----- include ActionController::UrlWriter # only needed for notify_pingomatic + notify_sitemap john griffiths / www.johnantoni.com