#Hacker News Listing ###Simple news listing from Hacker News

Ruby on Rail implementation of a very simple news listing page using https://hn.algolia.com/api as the source.

The news scrapper picks up news items if the URL of the news contains github and author points are 1000+. Then we order the listing by created_date. At the core, there is the NewsService that takes care of building proper resource URL and returning JSON formatted news items.

##Default configuration The default configuration of the NewsService is

newsReader.newestFirst true
newsReader.searchFor 'github'
newsReader.searchOnFields 'url'
newsReader.minimumAuthorPoints 1000

###News Service Options NewsService exposes following options

Option	Default value	Description
newestFirst	true	Toggle order by creation date.
searchFor	github	Term to search for in the news items [also see searchOnFields]
searchOnFields	url	Limit searching to the given fields, if omitted all fields will be searched.
minimumAuthorPoints	1000	Set threshold points of elligible authors.
itemsPerPage	10	Define number of news items to be displayed per page
page	0	Page number to be fetched from the API

##Local environment setup To view and modify the source locally,

• clone the repository git clone https://github.com/nilobarp/hackernews.git
• run bundle install from the repository folder
• start a local server rails s -b 0.0.0.0 -p 8090
• open a browser to http://localhost:8090

##Unit tests After cloning,

• run rake test from the repository folder

##Acknowledgements

• The Clean Blog theme was downloaded from https://startbootstrap.com/template-overviews/clean-blog/
• Home page background image is from https://minkcv.github.io/