I needed to correlate some logs with New Relic monitoring data. I started doing this manually... and got bored very quickly. It was too slow and painstaking. After some poking around I came across newrelic_api (not to be confused with rpm, which is the monitoring agent).
Next thing I discovered... I had no idea how to install gems from GitHub!
No longer!
wintermute:~/Git $ mkdir newrelic
wintermute:~/Git $ cd newrelic/
wintermute:~/Git/newrelic $ git clone git://github.com/newrelic/newrelic_api.git
Cloning into newrelic_api...
remote: Counting objects: 132, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (116/116), done.
remote: Total 132 (delta 59), reused 0 (delta 0) Receiving objects: 100% (132/132), 26.02 KiB, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (59/59), done.
wintermute:~/Git/newrelic $ cd newrelic_api/
wintermute:~/Git/newrelic/newrelic_api (master)$ ls
CHANGELOG Gemfile.lock README.rdoc VERSION log test Gemfile LICENSE.txt Rakefile lib newrelic_api.gemspec
wintermute:~/Git/newrelic/newrelic_api (master)$ gem build newrelic_api.gemspec
Successfully built RubyGem
Name: newrelic_api
Version: 1.1.1
File: newrelic_api-1.1.1.gem
wintermute:~/Git/newrelic/newrelic_api (master)$ gem install newrelic_api-1.1.1.gem
Successfully installed newrelic_api-1.1.1
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for newrelic_api-1.1.1...
Installing RDoc documentation for newrelic_api-1.1.1...
wintermute:~/Git/newrelic/newrelic_api (master)$
It's as simple as that.
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