Removed the old unused validation methods.

Author: daveverwer

Gemfile

@@ -3,5 +3,3 @@ source "https://rubygems.org"
 gem "rake"
 gem "json"
 gem "json-schema"
-gem "httparty"
-gem "work_queue"

Rakefile

@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 require "json"
 require "json-schema"
-require "httparty"
-require "work_queue"
 
 task default: "validate:json"
 
@@ -10,46 +8,4 @@ namespace :validate do
   task :json do
     JSON::Validator.validate!("schema_blogs.json", "blogs.json")
   end
-
-  desc "Ping each site and feed URLs and report any failures"
-  task :ping do
-    wq = WorkQueue.new 30
-    # The top level of the JSON file contains an array of languages
-    urls = Array.new
-    languages = JSON.parse(File.read("blogs.json"))
-    languages.each do |language|
-      # Inside each language is an array of categories
-      language["categories"].each do |category|
-        # Inside each category is a list of sites 
-        category["sites"].each do |site|
-          urls.push(URI(site["site_url"]))
-          urls.push(URI(site["feed_url"]))
-        end
-      end
-    end
-    
-    urls.each do |url|
-      wq.enqueue_b do
-        ping_url(url)
-      end
-    end
-    
-    wq.join
-  end
-end
-
-def ping_url(url)
-  begin
-    response = HTTParty.head(url, follow_redirects: true, timeout: 10)
-    # Anything other than a 200 is classed as a faulure
-    puts "#{response.code} for #{url}" unless response.code == 200
-  rescue Net::OpenTimeout
-    puts "Timeout for #{url}"
-  rescue OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError
-    puts "SSL Error for #{url}"
-  rescue SocketError
-    puts "Socket Error for #{url}"
-  rescue => exception
-    puts "#{exception.class} #{exception} for #{url}"
-  end
 end