spark-ping

A ping 'GUI' for the command line using sparklines.

Example:

$ ./spark-ping google.com
▃▇▄▄▅▄▃▃▃▄▃▃▄▄▄▄▅▄▅▃▅▃▃▃▄▄▃▃▄▅▄▃▄▃ 24.731 ms

Implemented as a Ruby wrapper around your system's normal ping utility. Does not require any special gems, so it should work out of the box on many platforms.

The sparklines are multi-byte UTF8 characters, so your terminal may or may not display them correctly.

Tested with

• Ruby: 1.8.7, 1.9.2, 1.8.5 (centos5)
• Terminal: Terminal.app, iTerm2.app
• OS Ping: OSX 10.7, Linux (centos5)

Install

Copy it somewhere in your path. Run it like you would run ping.

Thanks

• holman/spark - for "sparking" this whole thing
• R.I.Pienaar (http://www.devco.net) - for the ping idea on ##infra-talk

LICENSE

Author:: Joe Miller (http://joemiller.me)
Copyright:: Copyright (c) 2011 Joe Miller
License:: Apache License, Version 2.0

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you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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