GetDomain CLI

A Simple Ruby CLI built on top of Thor to fetch domains accurately from company names.

Tools Used:

• Language: Ruby v2.3.1p112

Depedent Gems

• Thor: Thor is a simple and efficient tool for building self-documenting command line utilities

  Run gem install thor to install it before running the tool.

• Parallel: Parallel processing made simple and fast

  Run gem install parallel to install it before running the tool.

• Mechanize: Ruby gem built on top of Nokogiri for Web Scraping.

  Run gem install mechanize to install it before running the tool.

• Koala: Koala is a Facebook library for Ruby, supporting the Graph API/

  Run gem install koala to install it before running the tool.

• HTTParty: HTTparty is a simple and efficient tool to handle HTTP requests.

  Run gem install httparty to install it before running the tool.

• Rspec (optional): Behaviour Driven Development for Ruby. It is only needed if you wish to the run the tests.

  Run gem install rspec to install it before running the tests.

• Webmock (optional): Library for stubbing and setting expectations on HTTP requests in Ruby. HTTParty is supported. It is only needed if you wish to the run the tests.

  Run gem install webmock to install it before running the tests.

Execution:

There are two ways to execute the program:

• Execute ruby get_domain.rb or ./get_domain.rb; if the file is denied permission for the latter, grant permission by executing chmod +x get_domain.rb

Inputs:

1. It provides an interactive command prompt based shell where commands can be typed in.

2. It accepts company names as arguments and outputs the resultant domain names on the terminal. Company name should not have spaces between them.

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./get_domain.rb from_company_name Guru -c startups saas

3. Use help to explore further on the options of a command. get_domain_name also takes File as parameter to parse through it and output domains.

Note:

./get_domain.rb from_company_name Guru Microsoft -c startups saas yields both companies with similarity index based on the common categories provided. However, if you want different category search for each company name. Use the file input. First argument company-name and rest of the arguments can be categories. Check companies.txt for example.