Over the past week or so I’ve been reading Spineless which is a book by Juli Berwald all about jellyfish. I picked it up in the Haight only because of the design of its cover and the random paragraph that I flipped to – but that would be enough. I knew this book was going to be a lovely tale about a topic that I...

This post is all about how to scrape the web with Ruby. I’ll be covering the four main ways to interact with the webserver and get the data you want. Best Case Scenario This is the absolute dream, you don’t need anything outside of the standard library (but something like Curb could also be used for handling cases...