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CheckZilla is a command line tool allowing you to check and be notified of outdated software.
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>= 0.3.0
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CheckZilla

CheckZilla is a command line tool allowing you to check and be notified of outdated software. CheckZilla is extensible and already supports multiple "Checkers" (RubyGem, Pacman, Npm) and "Notifiers" (Console, Email, HipChat, notify-send).

The main usage currently is to use it as a CRON notifying you everyday of new softwares updates.

Warning This is Beta Software !

How to use it

$> checkzilla your-config-file

The configuration is using a DSL, here's a sample :

CheckZilla::Model.new('This is the title of my report') do

  check_updates :rubygem do |rubygem|
    rubygem.path = "/home/mike/code/diaspora"
  end

  notify_by :hipchat do |hipchat|
    hipchat.api_token = '95def4314870443f46b8c4694bd88e'
    hipchat.room = 'test'
    hipchat.username = 'CheckUpdates'
  end

  notify_by :console
end

Checkers

Checkers are defined via a CheckZilla::Check::NEW_CHECKER class, they need to define 2 methods:

initialize(&block) returns self

perform! fills @results with @results[software_name] = [software_current_version, software_newer_version]

Here's the list of availables checkers:

Rubygem

check_updates :rubygem do |rubygem|
  rubygem.path = "/home/mike/code/diaspora"
end

Tries to find a Gemfile.lock if path is defined, otherwise will use gem list for a system wide ruby installation. It matches your dependencies against the rubygems api to find what's outdated.

Pacman

check_updates :pacman

Tries to determine your outdated package via:

sudo pacman -Sy > /dev/null ; package-query -AQu -f '%n %l %V'

Warning You need to execute checkzilla as root as I didn't find a better way to ask pacman to synchronise the db. package-query is required (it's a dependency of yaourt).

Npm

check_updates :npm do |npm|
  npm.path = "/home/mike/code/nodes3"
end

It requires path and will determine the dependencies via npm outdated

Notifiers

Notifiers are defined via a CheckZilla::Notifier::NEW_NOTIFIER class, they need to define 2 methods:

initialize(&block) returns self

perform!(checkers) loop other the checkers, format the results and notifies you.

Here's the list of availables notifiers:

Console

notify_by :console

Outputs to the console.

Twitter

notify_by :twitter do |twitter|
  twitter.consumer_key = YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY
  twitter.consumer_secret = YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET
  twitter.oauth_token = YOUR_OAUTH_TOKEN
  twitter.oauth_token_secret = YOUR_OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET
end

Email

notify_by :email do |email|
  email.pony_settings = {
    :to => 'you@gmail.com',
    :subject => 'BOT Report',
    :from => 'you+bot@gmail.com',
    :via => :smtp,
    :via_options => {
      :address              => 'smtp.gmail.com',
      :port                 => '587',
      :enable_starttls_auto => true,
      :user_name            => 'you@gmail.com',
      :password             => 'yourpassword',
      :authentication       => :plain,
      :domain               => "localhost.localdomain"
    }
  }
end

Send you an email using Pony

Hipchat

notify_by :hipchat do |hipchat|
  hipchat.api_token = '95def4314870443f46b8c4694bd88e'
  hipchat.room = 'test'
  hipchat.username = 'CheckUpdates'
end

Sends you a notification to the HipChat room of your choice

notify-send

notify_by :notify_send

Send a desktop notification (only tested on archlinux/xfce but should work on ubuntu/unity).

TODO

  • Persistence layer (no need to be fancy, a .yml could do it) so you can send incremental updates
  • Add notifiers global options like only and except. They'd both take an array of checkers.
  • Add notifier global option template ? So you can pimp your emails and Twitter mentions
  • Notifiers: Growl, kdialog, basecamp, jabber
  • Checkers: Homebrew, apt-get
  • Rack Application and/or HTML report

Helping out

  • Feedback is good
  • Issue reporting is better
  • Pull requests are way better
  • Awesome pull requests are obviously awesome