Simple script to report temp and memory to pachube

gistfile1.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'logger'
gem 'builder'
require 'net/http'
gem 'Floppy-eeml'
require 'eeml'
  
logger = Logger.new("#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/pachube.log")
PACHUBE_KEY = #YOUR KEY HERE
digits = /\d+/


while true
  begin
    val = %x"/Applications/TemperatureMonitor.app/Contents/MacOS/tempmonitor".split[0] #install TemperatureMonitor for this to work.
    mem = digits.match(%x"top -l 1 | awk '/PhysMem/ {print $10}'")[0]
  
    $environment = EEML::Environment.new
  
    $environment.description = "A ruby script reports some stats from my MacBook"
    $environment.creator = "Christian Meichtry"
  
    location = EEML::Location.new(:virtual)
    location.lat = 46.326068311712596
    location.lon = 7.787933349609375
  
    $environment.location = location
  
    data = EEML::Data.new(val)
    data.unit = EEML::Unit.new('°C')
    $environment << data
  
    data = EEML::Data.new(mem)
    data.unit = EEML::Unit.new('Mb')
    $environment << data
       
    http = Net::HTTP.new('www.pachube.com', 80)

    http.start do |http|

      req = Net::HTTP::Put.new('/api/2202.xml', {'X-PachubeApiKey' => PACHUBE_KEY})

      req.body = $environment.to_eeml

      resp = http.request(req)
    end

    logger.info "OK #{val}°C - #{mem}Mb"

  rescue

    # Probably not much we can do, lets hope that the next one works
    logger.error $!

  end
  sleep(60)
end