Pixel Sorter Says

pixel_sorter_says.rb

require 'open-uri'
require 'nokogiri'


def generate_pixel_sorter_saying
  random_page_number_between_one_and_forty = rand(1 .. 40)

  # load the quote_page
  quote_page = Nokogiri::HTML(open("http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_art#{random_page_number_between_one_and_forty}.html"))

  # get all the quotes on said quote_page
  all_quote_elements_on_quote_page = quote_page.css(".bqQuoteLink a").map{|e| e.text}

  # choose a random quote
  chosen_quote = all_quote_elements_on_quote_page.sample

  # clean up quote from punctuation and uppercasing
  chosen_quote = chosen_quote.downcase.gsub(/[^a-z0-9\s]/i, '')

  # get last three words of quote
  chosen_quote = chosen_quote.split(" ")[-3..-1].join(" ")
  return chosen_quote
end

10.times {p generate_pixel_sorter_saying}

@cglinka