[Noisebridge-announce] Rails class 11/4: Using ActiveRecord Without Rails For A Web Scraper

[Sameer Siruguri]

Hi, Noisebridge! We added a new class at  7pm Pacific on November  4, 2014

Using ActiveRecord Without Rails For A Web Scraper

We will look at how to use ActiveRecord to query a SQLite database in an app, without needing to create a whole entire Rails app. 

The app we will build is a simple website scraper. We will run quickly through some basic web scraping concepts, like HTML and DOM objects. 

The app will be built to mimic the structure of a Rails app in a very basic way, and to allow for quick addition of custom webpage parsers.

For the sake of this tutorial, we will focus on building a scraper for Reddit's pages.


RSVP here: http://www.railsschool.org/l/activerecord-without-rails-web-scraping-nov-04
May The Force Be With You!

Best regards,
Rails School, http://www.railsschool.org

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