NOTES.md

A CLI app that shows a list of countries and users can choose a country to see the languages spoken in that country.

Flow User types babbel_explorer

Display list of countries

"Choose a country by its corresponding number"

user sees languages spoken in chosen country

Classes country region(?maybe in a later version?) scraper

site = "https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/402.html" #THIS WORKS! page = Nokogiri::HTML(open(site)) countries = page.css("table#fieldListing tr") scraped_countries = []

countries.each do |c| country_name = c.css("td.country").text.strip lang = c.css("div.category_data.subfield.text").text

puts country_name puts lang

end

Refactoring cli.rb

get_countries country_list get_selection explore_more

skteches:

create into hash? {:name => "name", :language => "language"}

check for valid input

def get_countries

countries = BabbelExplorer::Scraper.scrape_countries

countries.shift

if BabbelExplorer::Country.all.empty?

countries.each do |country|

BabbelExplorer::Country.new(country[:name], country[:language])

end

end

#@countries = BabbelExplorer::Country.all

end

def explore

input = ""

until input == "exit"

get_countries

country_list

get_selection

end #i want a confirmation message to the user before exiting

exit

end