scrape.rb

# An attempt to scrape students.flatironschool.com and retrieve student names, links, taglines, and excerpts
# and create a Hash out of the information

require "open-uri"
require "nokogiri"

url = "http://students.flatironschool.com"
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open("#{url}"))
names = "h2"
hrefs = ".one_third a"
tags = ".position"
excerpts = ".excerpt"

students = []
links = []
taglines = []
intros = []

doc.css("#{names}").each do |name|
  students << name.text
end

doc.css("#{hrefs}").each do |href|
	links << href.attr("href")
end

doc.css("#{tags}").each do |tag|
	taglines << tag.text
end

doc.css("#{excerpts}").each do |exc|
	intros << exc.text
end

flatiron = {
	students => {
		:links => links,
		:taglines => taglines,
		:intros => intros
	}
}

puts flatiron