Snitch as a plugin

[rellik]

I like snitch a lot, but the overhead of a seperate rails instance
would probably keep me from running it on a server where I am trying
to squeeze as much use out of the memory as I can. Do you have any
plans to integrate it as a plugin?

I haven't played around with molet, so maybe that would suit my needs
better, but I like the web interface of snitch.

[rellik]

Looking at the Yahoo widgets page, it seems to only be for windows/
mac, and, since I spent most of my time under linux, that makes a
snitch plugin all the more desirable.

[Fernand Galiana]

Hi Patrick,

   Actually, we've started down that path initially, by bundling the snitch inside the
   mole plugin. Then I've thought that folks may be freaked out to deploy our app
   on their production servers ??
 
-Fernand

[rellik]

Yes, I can understand that some people would have an issue with that.
However, as it stands, it's only ~250 lines of code, and not terribly
complex. ...And, the smaller and simpler a plugin is, the more
comfortable I am with it.

Three reasons come to mind as to why I would feel comfortable using
this as a plugin.
1: It's relatively small size and non-complex nature means I can get a
fair amount of understanding as to how it works by looking through it
for a little while. While I may not sit down and read the code line
by line, what I will do (and have done, to some extent) is check
specific things out, either because I'm curious, or because I want to
make some small change to better suit my application (such as the
formatting changes I mentioned in another post).

2: It is an output-only application, which means it is not vunerable
to Cross-Site Scripting or similar exploits.

3: It would be used as a monitoring system, and as such would only be
used by myself, and I trust myself to not to stupid things to the
server, and to tell when something is acting up and should be
investigated.

Really, the one reason I would be reluctant to use it as a plugin is
kind of a moot point. That is: I am uncomfortable giving it access to
my database. Now, that point is fairly moot because, while I could
give snitch-as-a-separate-app read-only access to the database, the
mole plugin itself requires write-access, and it's all written by the
same guy(s), as part of the same project. ..And I think that is really
the main point here: If I give part of the program (the mole part) a
certain access level, why would I not give the other part (snitch)
that same access?

On Apr 20, 8:32 am, "Fernand Galiana" <fernand.gali...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Patrick,
>
> Actually, we've started down that path initially, by bundling the snitch
> inside the
> mole plugin. Then I've thought that folks may be freaked out to deploy
> our app
> on their production servers ??
>
> -Fernand
>