This script detects changes to the sad pets featured on Socialtees. Updates, if any, are sent via SMS.
A hashing algorithm is used to freeze the latest state based on desired fields; this allows us to only subscribe to relevant changes while weeding out superfluous updates (e.g. removing a period from a description field). The most recent payload is also saved to provide more color to the diff report. Both are always available in /cache; using the filesystem over an in-memory cache is critical to recover from app failures.
Texts are sent via Twilio. I'm poor so every text will be prepended with SENT FROM YOUR TWILIO TRIAL ACCOUNT 😭
- Newly added doggies
- Recently removed doggies
- Updated profile pictures (only if they don't already have one)
Recipients are designated in /config
Ensure latest is committed to master, then push to heroku:
$ git push origin master
$ git push heroku master
By default, Heroku freaks out if a main process / start script is not provided. Since all we need is to run a cron job via clock.js, we'll use the following upon first successful deploy:
$ heroku ps:scale web=0 clock=1
Subsequent deploys will not require this last snippet.
For continuous logs:
$ heroku logs -t
For getting the name of the dyno:
$ heroku ps
For ssh'ing into the dyno (e.g. clock.1):
$ heroku ps:exec --dyno=clock.1