Crawl McGill's website and the Visual Schedule Builder to determine which courses are being offered and information (professor, timing, capacity) for each section/
$ sudo gem install mcgill-utils
So far, the gem only encapsulates the Visual Schedule Builder API in order to provide a list of sections available for each course, along with the professor and timing, etc, of each section.
You need to provide the semester and a list of courses you're interested in. The semester is formated YYYYMM, where the month is either 05 for Summer, 09 for Fall, or 01 for Winter. Courses are formatted CODE-###, e.g., MGCR-293. Multiple courses can be given at once, either as multiple parameters or as an array.
> courses = McGill::VSB.new 201409, 'MGCR-293', 'FINE-441', 'COMP-202'
or
> courses = McGill::VSB.new 201409, ['MGCR-293', 'FINE-449', 'COMP-202']
To get information about each courses section, call #sections
> courses.sections
=> {"FINE-449"=>
[{:crn=>"8270",
:kind=>"Lec",
:waitlist=>false,
:teacher=>"di Pietro, Vadim",
:times=>["Thursday 6:05 PM - 8:55 PM, Sep 2 to Dec 3"],
:notes=>"Enrolment limited by program \nJoint BCom/MBA course."}],
#...
}
To check whether it's possible to register for any of the sections, call #availability. You'll get back a hash with the crn of the section as the key. If the section has a waitlist, then a result of true means that there is space for you to join the waitlist. If there's no waitlist, then true means you can join the section immediately. A result of false always means that the section, and waitlist if applicable, are full.
> courses.availability
=> {"BUSA-465"=>{10097=>true}, "COMP-202"=>{823=>true, 824=>false, 825=>false}}
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