Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'nytimes_top_stories'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install nytimes_top_stories

Usage

This gem scrapes data from the New York Times website and presents the top stories on the front page, here defined as those with a headline, byline, and summary. Upon execution, the user will be presented with a numbered list of headlines for stories meeting these criteria. Enter the number of the headline for more information about the story, type "list" to scrape the site again, or type exit to terminate the program.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/[USERNAME]/nytimes_top_stories.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.