knowtifier

Heroku robot to check for releases or new rOpenSci packages.

what it does

• get list of ropensci packages from https://github.com/ropensci/roregistry
• check if any new packages, or new versions, for each package:
  • if a new package, or a new release send email/tweet
  • if nothing new, skip

Install

git clone git@github.com:ropenscilabs/knowtifier.git
cd knowtifier

Setup

Create the app (use a different name, of course)

heroku apps:create ropensci-knowtifier

Push your app to Heroku

git push heroku master

Add the scheduler to your heroku app

heroku addons:create scheduler:standard
heroku addons:open scheduler

Add the task rake run to your heroku scheduler and set to whatever schedule you want.

Usage

If you have your repo in an env var as above, run the rake task run

rake run

If not, then pass the repo to run like

rake run repo=owner/repo

Rake tasks

• rake envs # list env vars
• rake run # checks for new packages or new releases