New and Modified Headings

You can use FAST updater to automatically update modified headings in your repository and/or replace hard-coded strings with new FAST URIs. By default, FAST updater will parse an Excel spreadsheet for new/modified headings and search your repository for any applicable changes. You can run this command from the rails console:

# https://github.com/UVicLibrary/fast_update/blob/main/app/jobs/fast_update/parse_changes_job.rb
# filepaths = array of paths of the .xlsx files you want to parse. You can download these from 
# http://fast.oclc.org/fastChanges/ or run FastUpdate::DownloadXlsxFilesJob

# This runs in the console
FastUpdate::ParseChangesJob(filepaths).perform_now

# This runs in the background
FastUpdate::ParseChangesJob(filepaths).perform_later

Scheduling Updates with Sidekiq-Cron

Installing the sidekiq-cron gem allows you to schedule automatic updates. For example, you can schedule it to run once a month by creating a config/schedule.yml file as described in the gem's documentation. (There are many free sites available for generating the necessary cron expression.)

# All times must be converted to UTC
download_xlsx_files_job:
  cron: "0 2 1 * *" # At 2 AM (6 PM PST/5 PM PDT) on the 1st of every month
  class: "FastUpdate::DownloadXlsxFilesJob"
  queue: default