http://euri.ca/2013/ironworker-is-really-easy-to-use

trigger_pd.rb

# This code is awful, don't fork it http://euri.ca/2013/ironworker-is-really-easy-to-use

def trigger
  require 'net/http'
  require "uri"

  url = URI.parse('http://events.pagerduty.com/generic/2010-04-15/create_event.json')
  request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url.path)
  
  request.content_type = 'application/json'
  request.body = '{"service_key": "[APIKEY]","event_type": "trigger","description": "Something somewhere broke"}'
  response = Net::HTTP.start(url.host, url.port) {|http| http.request(request) }
  print response
end

def maybe_trigger
  time = Time.new
  prob = 0.05
  prob += 0.02 if [9..17].include? time.hour # More errors during work hours
  prob = 0.01 if [0,6].include? time.wday # less on weekends
  prob = 0.2 if time.day == 1 # Something is wrong with a monthly batch job
  prob += time.yday/10000.0 # gets worse over the year
  r=rand()
  if r < prob
    print "Triggering #{r},#{prob} "
    trigger()
  else
    print 'maybe next time'
  end
end

maybe_trigger

trigger_pd.worker

runtime "ruby"
exec "trigger_pd.rb"