Goberon

Villanova Course Indexing CLI. Rewrite of Oberon (https://github.com/Space-Cadets/Oberon) in Golang to work with RethinkDB. Built over a long weekend.

• Overview
• Installation
  • Supported platforms
  • RethinkDB Setup
  • Request Setup
• Getting Started

Overview

The Villanova course registry is a mess and they've taken away Schedulr. Things like finding interesting electives to take shouldn't be as difficult as they are. This is the first step to organizing course data and making registration less of a hassle.

Installation

Make sure you have a working Go environment. Go version 1.8+ is supported. See the install instructions for Go.

To install cli, simply run:

$ go get github.com/ahermida/Goberon

Make sure your PATH includes the $GOPATH/bin directory so your commands can be easily used:

export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin

Supported platforms

This CLI is currently only tested against MacOS and the Linux Subsystem for Windows.

RethinkDB Setup

This project requires a RethinkDB instance to be running. If you don't have it installed yet, you can see the RethinkDB installation guide for your system. If you have Homebrew on a mac, install with brew update && brew install rethinkdb.

Once you have it installed, you must set the "RdbAddress" value within the "Network" variable in Goberon/config/config.go to the port that rethinkdb is open on.

Request Setup

Go into Goberon/config/secret.go, edit out the comment and place the data for the POST request to the registrar (set the cookie, body, headers, and URL). If you don't know how to get this data, fear not.

You can alternatively navigate to the registrar HTML page with all of the courses, save the HTML page with all of the courses into the Goberon directory with the name courses.html.

Getting Started

Once you've run go get github.com/ahermida/Goberon and you're in the Goberon directory, you can run go install.

This will setup the command: goberon

Fetching Data

Running $ goberon will load a help menu.

Fetching Data

Running $ goberon fetch will download the course data. It usually takes ~4mins.

Indexing Data

Using $ goberon index will build course data, and write it into appropriate RethinkDB tables.

Data

Using $ goberon drop will drop all course data tables

Acknowledgments

Can't build this without a shoutout to the original Oberon authors:

• David Siah @dsiah
• Kent Wu @kentkwu