My software blog

If you know me personally, you probably already know how excited I am to be learning to code at the Flatiron school.  I am roughly one month into the program so far and loving it.  

I’ve just wrapped up writing a Ruby gem that allows you to search Indeed.com for jobs for a selected zip code.  It’s been a fun project, once I got started.  It seemed like the hardest part was finding a project that interested me.  I finally settled on a job search, because I hope to be needing that type of service in the next few months.

The gem has a CLI which asks the user to enter a zip code and search terms in order to pull the first 10 jobs returned. My gem gives the option to get more information about each job listing and even allows the user to open the job listing on Indeed.com if they would like more information or to apply.  The only problem is I keep thinking of things I would like to add to it.  Currently the interface only returns the top 10 jobs, but I’d like to add the functionality to list ALL jobs. I know it’s not the most feature rich or the most snazzy gem you’ve ever seen, but it’s my first and I’m proud of it.

If you want to check it out, my source is located at GitHub.