A Command Line Interface for the Portland Volleyball Association
At this point the project is set up to be built and installed as a ruby gem, but I have not pushed it up to rubygems. So, for the time being, this is how you would build the latest version of the gem and get it installed on your system. Note: The code requires Ruby 2.1+ and possibly build tools and libraries to build the native extensions for nokogiri, one of the dependencies.
git clone https://github.com/drueck/pva.gitcd pvagem build pva.gemspec[sudo] gem install pva-<version>.gem
Then just run pva to display the help and see what commands are available.
See it in action:
At this point the cli can list the current teams, display schedules, standings, and match results (scores) for a given team or for all of the teams in your "teams cache". The teams cache is just a text file stored at ~/.pva that lists info about each of the teams for which you have requested information. There is currently no interface to manage this list with the cli, but you can manually edit that file to remove teams you are no longer interested in or whose ids are out of date.
Note that the code is dependent on the current structure of the PVA website as it is implemented via screen scraping. If the website changed significantly it could easily break, but I will attempt to keep it up-to-date.
- Add the ability to manage your teams list with the cli.
- Eventually convert the project to Go to eliminate the ruby dependencies and allow for cross compilation on multiple platforms (and for fun).