Uploading and validating config files#

You have now made all the changes necessary to start using the simple hub, but the changes to admin.json and tasks.json are only on your local computer. You want to move them to your GitHub repository.

Uploading changes from your local computer to GitHub#

Follow GitHub directions here for adding files to a repository.

Once you have uploaded those two files onto your GitHub repository, you will notice that they have been updated by looking at the last commit date, as indicated below.

Screenshot of GitHub repository page with arrows pointing at time of last commits

Validating your config files#

Now you should validate the config files, to be sure they are properly functional. You can use the validate_config function from hubAdmin to check whether Hub config files are valid. The steps are as follows:

  1. First, you need to install the package hubAdmin. Here are instructions for installing hubAdmin in the R console.

  2. Next, you need to validate the config files. Here are detailed instructions and explanations, and following is sample code you can copy to validate the config files:

library(hubAdmin)

validate_config(
    hub_path = ".",
    config = c("tasks", "admin"), 
    config_path = NULL, 
    schema_version = "from_config", 
    branch = "main"
)

Below is an example using the simple hub. You can see that the config files were successfully validated.

Screenshot of code showing validation of config files

Congratulations!#

Your simple hub repository is now ready to be used! You created a simple hub and modified the config.json and task.json files. You now have:

  • [x] Created a hub repository

  • [x] Cloned the hub repository to your local computer

  • [x] Configured the modeling hub by:

    • [x] Modifying admin.json

    • [x] Modifying tasks.json

  • [x] Uploaded modified files from your local computer to GitHub

  • [x] Validated config files

Screenshot showing directory of simple files on local computer and GitHub

Next, it is time to start using your modeling hub.