The idea of this gem is to help users to check the top rated movies by genre/year based in Rotten Tomatoes score and show all of their details, like genre, year, score, description and who directed the movie.
If a user wanted to see Today’s Best Rated Movies, they would just type “today” and the program would just scrape through https://www.rottentomatoes.com/browse/cf-in-theaters/ and get all the information from there.
When user wanted to see a specific genre, we’d have to scrape the website to that specific genre. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to find a a page in rotten tomatoes where all movies were listed, but I made sure to only scrape the site when user requests that specific genre.
I started by creating my gem with bundle gem list_best_rated_movies then adding two classes to the lib folder Movie and Genre which have a Memorable module in concerns. A Movie can have many genres and a Genre can have many movies.
Once I created all the appropriate methods for those two classes, I created the Scraper class to scrape all the data I needed for the program to work. Then I created my class to list Today’s best rated movies. I called it CertifiedFresh since it is how Rotten Tomatoes calls it.
I made my scraper methods as simple as possible, then I started adding some abstraction.
Time to start building my CLI!
This is where the fun part came! It was already time to start playing with the classes I created.
First, I initialized the class by instanciating two new objects:
@scraper = ListBestRatedMovies::Scraper.new # This variable calls my Scraper class
@genres = @scraper.scrape_genres #This scrapes the genres and save them in the Genre class
@certified_fresh = ListBestRatedMovies::CertifiedFresh.new # This variable calls my CertifiedFresh
Then I create the method call where I welcome my user, then list_genres which is where I show the genres I stored in the Genre class at the beginning and prompt user to input a valid genre. You can go ahead and download my gem at https://github.com/david-bermudez1102/list-best-rated-movies-cli-gem.
So far, everything looks like this:
Check out my Youtube video https://youtu.be/wItLM9_F-Dc to know more about this gem!