Really simple example of using the victorops api to create incidents

vo.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require "net/https"
require 'optparse'

url_path = "integrations/generic/20131114/alert"

options = {}
opts = OptionParser.new do |opts|
  opts.banner = "Usage: vo -k APIKEY [options] msg"

  opts.on('-k n', '--key APIKEY', 'Api key (required)') do |v|
    options[:key] = v
  end

  options[:server] = 'alert.victorops.com'
  opts.on('-s', '--server SERVER_NAME', 'An alternate server to send alerts to.') do |v|
    options[:server] = v
  end

  options[:use_ssl] = true
  opts.on('--[no-]ssl', 'Enable men in the middle?') do |v|
    options[:use_ssl] = v
  end

  options[:msg_type] = :info
  opts.on('--type TYPE', [:info, :warning, :critical, :acknowledgement, :recovery], 'select message type (info, warning, critical, acknowledgement, recovery)') do |v|
    options[:msg_type] = v
  end

  opts.on('--entity ENTITY', 'entity id, used for incident aggregation') do |v|
    options[:entity] = v
  end
end

opts.parse!
if options[:key].nil?
  puts 'Please specify an api-key'
  puts opts
  abort
end

msg = ARGV[0] || "NO MESSAGE"

entity_id = unless options[:entity].nil?
  ",\"entity_id\": \"#{options[:entity]}\""
end

payload = <<-eos
{
  "message_type": "#{options[:msg_type]}",
  "state_message": "#{msg}",
  "originating_host": "#{`hostname`.chomp}",
  "user": "#{`whoami`.chomp}"
  #{entity_id}
}
eos


proto = options[:use_ssl] ? 'https' : 'http'

uri   = URI("#{proto}://#{options[:server]}/#{url_path}/#{options[:key]}/everyone")
https = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
https.use_ssl = options[:use_ssl]

request      = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.path, initheader = {'Content-Type' =>'application/json'})
request.body = payload
response     = https.request(request)

if response.code != '200'
  puts "POST failed with #{response.body}"
  exit 1
else
  exit 0
end