Ruby-Capstone
This project entails building a program that crawls daily data about COVID-19 from a website and displays it in the terminal. Built with Ruby.
MIT License
CovidWebSpider
A CLI-Program for getting information about COVID-19 CASES
This project about building a Web crawler Program that extracts COVID-19 data from a web page and presents it to a user via the Command-line interface. A user gets to see updates on COVID-19 data reported worldwide and on a country and region wise. Read this to learn more about what a web crawler is.
Built With
- Ruby 2.6x
- Other tools
Getting Started
To get a local copy up and running follow these simple example steps.
Prerequisites
You need Ruby runtime inorder to have this run on your Machine
Install
- Install Ruby if you don't have it
- Open the Terminal
- Run
git clone https://github.com/belsman/Ruby-Capstone.git
- Run 'cd Ruby-Capstone' to enter the main directory
- Run 'bundle install'
Run Rspec
- Open the terminal
- Run
cd Ruby-Capstoneto enter main directory - Ensure there is network connnection
- Run
rspec - '100% passing' tests mean you are ready to go
Usage
- Open the terminal
- Run
cd Ruby-Capstoneto enter main directory - Run
cd binto enter file directory - Be sure you're connected to the internet
- Run
ruby mainto start the Program - Here on you can see the COVID-19 data for every region and country
Author
Bello Babakolo
- Github: @belsman
- Twitter: @d_belsman
- Linkdin: Bello Babakolo
Contributing
Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome!
Feel free to check the issues page.
Show your support
Give a if you like this project!
Acknowledgments
- Microverse for showing the way for this project to happen
- The Odin Project.