WordLookup, for Rick

gistfile1.rb

class WordLookup

  def run()

    lines = File.readlines('words.txt')

    File.open('words-with-definitions.txt', 'w') do |output_file|

    # assume the only thing on the line is the word
    lines.each do |word|
      definition = get_definition(word)
      output_file << "#{word} - #{definition}\n"
    end
  end
  
  # This is the hard part, needs some research.
  def get_definition(word)
    # Ruby's Net::HTTP makes it easy to send HTTP requests and get the
    # response, but you need to know what to send (i.e. which site, which
    # parameters, how to build the URL with them) and how to parse the
    # response, which will probably be an entire web page in HTML,
    # Javascript, etc.  
  end
end

# Instantiate the class and call its run():
WordLookup.new.run