Use StarParty to find products at your favorite store.

Welcome to your new gem! In this directory, you'll find the files you need to be able to package up your Ruby library into a gem. Put your Ruby code in the file lib/star_party. To experiment with that code, run bin/console for an interactive prompt.

TODO: Delete this and the text above, and describe your gem

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'star_party'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install star_party

$ gem install star_party

then:

price = StarParty.search(:macys, "123456")

I wrote this because I wanted a quicker way to search for product prices from my favorite retailers instead of opening up a browser, trying searching for the item, and then finding the price on the page.

(Thanks to @searls and his FineAnts gem for the inspiration! 😀)

Right now, StarParty ships with adapters for:

You can also implement your own adapter and pass it to StarParty.search. The expected public contract of an adapter is:

class MyAdapter
  include Capybara::DSL

  def visit_site
    # visit the url of the site
  end

  def search_for(search_item)
   # fill in the search field with the search_item
   # and click a search button
   # after finding it, return the price
  end
end

You can pass your own adapter class:

price = StarParty.search(MyAdapter, "search item")

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb.