TP-Canvas sync

Authors: Håvard Pedersen & Øyvind Guttvik Årnes

A tool for syncing timetables from TP to Canvas.

Set CANVAS_TOKEN, DB_USER, DB_PASS, MQ_USER, MQ_PASS as environment variable

Use ruby 2.5.1, Recommend https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv to install Ruby.

Migrate database
mysql:
sequel -m . mysql2://[username]:[password]@appbase.uit.no/tp_canvas_prod Note: special characters must be url-encoded in username/password

Sequel migrations: https://github.com/jeremyevans/sequel/blob/master/doc/migration.rdoc

To run: ruby tp-canvas-sync.rb --help

Installation/setup tp-canvas.uit.no

Yum

Add proxy=http://swproxy.uit.no:3128 to /etc/yum.conf
Install packages: sudo yum install -y git openssl-devel readline-devel zlib-devel postgresql-devel mysql-devel

Add 'sua' user

sudo adduser sua

Add to .bashrc (as sua)

export http_proxy=http://swproxy.uit.no:3128
export https_proxy=https://swproxy.uit.no:3128
export TMPDIR=/home/sua/tmp

Install rbenv (as sua)

Follow instructions: https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv

Checkout and test script (as sua)

git config --global http.proxy http://swproxy.uit.no:3128
git clone [email protected]:uit-no/tp-canvas.git /home/sua/tp-canvas

Set ENV: CANVAS_TOKEN DB_USER DB_PASS MQ_USER MQ_PASS

in /home/sua/tp-canvas:
gem install bundler
bundle install
ruby tp-canvas-sync.rb -m <- monitor message queue

Setup service(systemd)

sudo cp /home/sua/tp-canvas/tp-canvas.service /lib/systemd/system/
edit /lib/systemd/system/tp-canvas.service, set env values
sudo systemctl enable tp-canvas.service
sudo systemctl start tp-canvas.service

Service status: sudo systemctl status tp-canvas.service

Crontab for canvas structural changes

Add values to ENV variables

# begin Canvas course change check 
RBENV_VERSION=2.5.1
CANVAS_TOKEN=
DB_USER=
DB_PASS=
MQ_USER=
MQ_PASS=
SENTRY_DSN=
http_proxy=
https_proxy=

0 2 * * * /bin/bash -l -c 'cd /home/sua/tp-canvas && /home/sua/.rbenv/shims/ruby tp-canvas-sync.rb --canvas-diff 18h'
#end Canvas course change check