Simple HipChat notifier

2012-04-12T19:36:56Z

We needed a simple way of sending messages to HipChat (great online chat software, BTW), so I cooked up this:

#!/usr/bin/env perl



use strict;

use warnings;

use WWW::Mechanize;

# See https://www.hipchat.com/docs/api/method/rooms/message for info

my $url     = 'https://api.hipchat.com/v1/rooms/message';

my $api_key = 'your-api-key';

my $from    = 'User-to-post-as';

my $room    = 'room-to-post-to';

my $message = $ARGV[0];

my $color   = $ARGV[1];

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new; $mech->post( $url, { room_id => $room, from => $from, color => $color, message => $message, auth_token => $api_key, });

Quick and dirty - no error checking. Works well for the situations we are using it in, but you may wish to make something more robust before doing anything serious with it.

Enjoy!

Compiling mod_perl 2 on OS X Lion

2012-04-03T16:20:30Z

Since updating to the latest XCode on OS X Lion, we've been unable to build or use mod_perl 2 on our development machines. If we ignore the test failures and make install anyhow, we get this error message when trying to start Apache:
Cannot load /opt/local/apache2/modules/mod_perl.so into server: dlopen(/opt/local/apache2/modules/mod_perl.so, 10): Symbol not found: _modperl_handler_anon_add

One of our developers discovered this morning that llvm/clang on OS X defaults to C99, but mod_perl expects the 89 "standard". As a result of this thread, we compiled mod_perl in the following manner:
perl Makefile.PL MP_APXS=/path/to/apache/bin/apxs MP_CCOPTS=-std=gnu89 make make test make install

And voila, we have a working mod_perl 2 on Lion.

Come to find out, while researching this blog post, the macports people have already run into this:

Discussion

Ticket and accompanying email thread

Hope this saves you the grief it caused us.

Jason A. Crome

Simple HipChat notifier

Compiling mod_perl 2 on OS X Lion