ratchet-agent 0.2.4

Ratchet.io server-side agent

A daemon to monitor log files and push messages to Ratchet.io.

Requirements

ratchet-agent requires:

• A unix-like system (tested on Fedora Linux and Mac OS X)

• Python 2.6+

• requests 0.13.1+

• a Ratchet.io account

Installation

Install with pip:

pip install ratchet-agent

This will install the ratchet-agent files in the root directory of your virtualenv. Or if you’d prefer, clone this git repo:

git clone https://github.com/ratchetio/ratchet-agent.git

See Configuration for configuration options and setup.

ratchet-agent comes with an example init.d script, chkconfig compatible and tested on Fedora Linux. To install it, symlink ratchet-agent-init.sh to /etc/init.d/ratchet-agent and add to chkconfig:

ln -s /path/to/ratchet-agent/ratchet-agent-init.sh /etc/init.d/ratchet-agent
chkconfig --add ratchet-agent
chkconfig on ratchet-agent
service ratchet-agent start

Configuration

Configuration options for ratchet-agent itself are in ratchet-agent.conf. If you’re using the init script, it has a few of its own configuration variables inside which control how it runs.

ratchet-agent.conf At the bare minimum, you will want to change the following variables:

• params.access_token – your Ratchet.io access token

• targets – white-space-separated list of files or directories (non-recursive) to process.

Setting the following variables will improve github integration:

• params.root – path to your code root

• params.branch – the current branch

Other options are documented in the sample config file.

ratchet-agent-init.sh Configuration variables should be self-explanatory. If you’re not using a virtualenv, set VIRTUALENV="".

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. The project is hosted on github at http://github.com/ratchetio/ratchet-agent

Additional Help

If you have any questions, feedback, etc., drop me a line at [e-mail]