Create Travis Cron job to check for current wq file

[fawda123]

See notes on Google drive

[bbest]

Hi @bbest ,

I took a stab at getting a cron job setup on our tbep repository yesterday. I think I’m 99% there but having some issues with the authentication to GitHub for the final push:

I followed the instructions for creating a token and then got an encryption key with the Travis CLI. You can see the Travis config file here: .travis.yml

-- @fawda123

[bbest]

Hey Marcus,

I'll have to try with my own credentials, which I can do tomorrow. Meanwhile here are a few links:

• setup Travis continuous integration (CI) to update daily · Issue #2 · SustainSB/sustainsb.github.io
• GitHub Pages Deployment - Travis CI
• newer way to push to Github for Github pages:
  • Encryption keys - Travis CI
  • Cron Jobs - Travis CI

[bbest]

Ok, the above commit a75fcde seems to have worked as evidenced by the badge now in the repo's README:

Here's a couple of things I did that might've made the difference:

1. I added the personal token to the file ~/.gh-token_tbep-tech then ran:

   echo GH_TOKEN=`cat ~/.gh-token_tbep-tech` | travis encrypt --add

   Note how this sets the GH_TOKEN variable which can then be accessed in the .travis.yml as $GH_TOKEN.

2. Set the other environmental variables TRAVIS_REPO_SLUG and TRAVIS_BRANCH used in the git push statement:

   script:
   - git push https://${GH_TOKEN}@github.com/${TRAVIS_REPO_SLUG}.git HEAD:${TRAVIS_BRANCH}
   
   env:
     global:
     - TRAVIS_REPO_SLUG=tbep-tech/tbep-tech.github.io
     - TRAVIS_BRANCH=master

[bbest]

Or on Windows:

travis encrypt GH_TOKEN="enteryoursecrettokeninfohere" --add

[fawda123]

This is still causing headaches... I got the authentication working but now the .Rmd render is getting stuck:

This goes back to the read_chkdate() function from tbeptools, specifically this line: https://github.com/tbep-tech/tbeptools/blob/15cdb9b1fb2d1c2ab0292602c21bb366bd3e9cf2/R/read_chkdate.R#L27

The URL it's trying to access is the TBEP server ftp://ftp.epchc.org/EPC_ERM_FTP/WQM_Reports/... works fine locally but seems to get hung on Travis. Any ideas?

[fawda123]

Fixed after making some changes to tbeptools and the DESCRIPTION file here cf25345

I think it was just a matter of requiring RCurl to be installed for R on the Travis machine

[fawda123]

Yea this still isn't working.... created a new issue for this #5