I instantly refresh my browser after deploying to make sure nothing went wrong. This gets tiring so I added some code to hit the site and print results after the deployment task has been run. The Net:HTTP code is taken verbatim from the pickaxe Net:HTTP reference.
task :after_deploy, :roles => :app do sanity_check
end
desc “Use Net:HTTP to pull up the live site”
task :sanity_check do Net::HTTP.start(‘www.yoursite.com’) do |http| response = http.get (‘/’) puts “Code = #{response.code}” puts “Message = #{response.message}” response.each do |key,val| printf “%-14s = %-40.40s\n”, key, val end
p response.body[400,500]
end end
