/uw-enroll-notifier

Query current enrollment counts of uWaterloo courses and receive notifications when enrollment counts are below capacity.

Primary LanguageRuby

A simple task that does the following:

  • Query the enrollment status of a list of courses offered at the University of Waterloo in the current term and see if you can enroll
  • Send email notifications from you to yourself if you can enroll

Prerequisite

  • Ruby 1.9+

Procedure

  1. Clone this repo

  2. Modify config.yaml as appropriate so your email credentials are correct

  3. Modify courses.yaml for a list of courses of interest

  4. Schedule to run this task periodically, e.g., through crontab on a machine:

     crontab -e

Add a new line to the crontab file which should look like

    * * * * * cd ~/path_to_this_repo; /u4/s68zhang/local/bin/ruby query.rb

The above configuration runs the task every minute.

Student Linux Environment

The student linux machines at UW can be used to schedule this task, but you need to install Ruby 1.9 as a user (since you don't have root access). All you need to do is pass --prefix=a_path_under_your_home_directory to the autoconf script when compiling Ruby from source.