Class: BirthYearAlbum::Album

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/birth_year_album/album.rb

Instance Attribute Summary collapse

Class Method Summary collapse

Instance Attribute Details

#artist ⇒ Object

Returns the value of attribute artist.



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# File 'lib/birth_year_album/album.rb', line 3

def artist
  @artist
end

#name ⇒ Object

Returns the value of attribute name.



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# File 'lib/birth_year_album/album.rb', line 3

def name
  @name
end

#year ⇒ Object

Returns the value of attribute year.



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# File 'lib/birth_year_album/album.rb', line 3

def year
  @year
end

Class Method Details

.album_by_year(year) ⇒ Object

takes in a year and return the album information.



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# File 'lib/birth_year_album/album.rb', line 5

def self.album_by_year(year) #takes in a year and return the album information.
  page = self.get_page
  
  alb = self.new
  alb.year = year
  
  counter = 0
  while counter <= page.css("tr td").length-1  #iterates through all tr td except the final one because it is nil.
    if page.css("tr td")[counter].text.to_i == alb.year #compares year on page to album year
      alb.artist = page.css("tr td")[counter+1].text.split("!")[1] #assign artist
      alb.name = page.css("tr td")[counter+3].text.split("!")[1] #assign album name
    end
    counter += 1
  end
  alb
end

.get_page ⇒ Object

scapes wikipedia



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# File 'lib/birth_year_album/album.rb', line 22

def self.get_page #scapes wikipedia
  doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums_by_year_in_the_United_States"))
end