I'm learning full stack development through the free course at appacademy. If you are familiar with it. am almost finished with the rails section and have done also done the SQL & Ruby sections. I have yet to start JavaScript or React.
To test my abilities, I want to create an app. It will mostly be backend + HTML since I haven't covered front end yet.
The app function: ability for someone to provide a list of URLs for reddit posts and then track number of upvotes. I want to do this by scraping the reddit content using this. This is just to test my ability and not a real use case.
I only want to scrape once a day to keep the scraping function minimal. I also want to add a refresh button next to each post, so the user can refresh when they want to.
Questions:
Ill be creating a database that stores the value of upvotes. However, from what I have learned with the program, I do not know how I can use my ruby app to keep running my daily scraper function. If I create a file scraper.rb with the function that is on a time loop, how do I put this file in my ror created app? do i put it in the models, views or controllers folder? Will it run automatically if I run my ruby server? or is this part entirely separate? do I run two ruby apps at once? One for backends and one the actual page
For the refresh button, I think I would need to include a call to the scraper function in my controller before rendering the refreshed text. Does that sound right?