Hacker News (HN) Hiring Trends

A Ruby library for analyzing software technology trends from Hacker News whoishiring posts. Created by Ryan Williams (@ryanwi)

Description

Warnings/Disclaimer

This is a personal development project, in particular for exploring redis. You are welcome to use, modify, etc. and I welcome any feedback or questions.

Requirements

• Ruby (developed and tested on 2.1.1-p76)
• Redis

Installation

Install via RubyGems:

gem install hiringtrends

Usage

With a command line

[terminal window 1 - start redis server]
$ redis-server

[terminal window 2]
$ irb

require 'hiringtrends'
hn = HiringTrends::Program.new
hn.get_submissions
hn.get_comments_for_submissions
hn.analyze_submissions("https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ryanwi/6135845/raw/18b427e7f26bfdedf9681df9309d392905213a1e/software-terms.dic")
hn.publish("August", "2017", "Saturday", "12", 20)

Author

Ryan Williams

• http://www.ryan-williams.net
• https://twitter.com/ryanwi
• https://github.com/ryanwi