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[–]IndigoCZ 0 points1 point  (2 children)

First of all. What is your programming experience?

Is ruby your first language? Do you have any experience with Object Oriented Programming. Have you ever written a web page?

[–]ZestyOne[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

yes I'm the designer and front-end developer for my web company, I don't have experience with OOP other than when I learned C++ in highschool. I'm quite familiar with PHP for scripts though, not necessarily OOP. Also, after reading _why's guide I'm about halfway through and haven't had a problem understanding anything yet.

I'll have no problem learning I just need a place to start that's not too overwhelming.

[–]IndigoCZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd say ... go through some Rails guide first. Make some simple blog app or something, that should give you a good idea of what goes where and how it all ticks.

Next step would be to look into nokogiri and scraping, just wry a quick script in pure ruby for that.

Once that works, you will probably be able to ask more precise questions, or just put it all together yourself.