A project to develop an apartment rental site like Craigslist, following a BaseRails course.
- To build an apartment rental site like Craigslist
- Learn to use an API to scrape Craigslist apartment rental data.
- Build a beautiful web app to display live listings with filters.
git clone [email protected]:StephanMusgrave/CraigsList_Scraper.git
cd craigslist_scraper
rails s
$ bin/rake scraper:scrape
$ bin/rake scraper:discard_local_old_data
Click here to open the web page on Heroku: App on Heroku
| Technology | Used for |
|---|---|
| Ruby 2.1.2 | Main programming language |
| Ruby on Rails 4.1.1 | Model View Controller Framework |
| Heroku | Deployment: App on Heroku |
| Sqlite3 | SQL Database for development |
| 3taps API 3taps | searches Twitter, Craigslist and other sites for postings |
| Postgrsql | SQL Database for deployment |
| Devise | Enabling users and admins |
| Dropbox | Bulk image hosting |
| Paperclip | A file attachment library for Active Record, used for uploading images |
| paperclip-dropbox | extends Paperclip with Dropbox storage |
| HTML5 | Web Pages |
| CSS3 | Styling |
| Bootstrap | Base styling theme |
| will_paginate | Pagination library |
| Glypicons | for styling links and buttons |
| Javascript | animations for alerts |
| New Relic | Real time application monitoring |
| Papertrail | Tracking events & log management |
| Google Analytics | website statistics |
| SendGrid | confirmation emails |