Best Music is a CLI app that returns Pitchfork.com's "Best New Albums" in realtime. It allows easy browsability by genre and score and provides a brief album description and link to the full review online.
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'best_music'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install best_music
You can also clone or download the repo from GitHub: https://github.com/cyantis/best_music
Once you've installed/cloned/downloaded the Gem, run bin/setup
to install dependencies.
To launch Best Music, simply run bin/best-music
. The app returns live data from more than a dozen webpages, so it may take a few seconds to launch. Thanks for your patience!
Once Best Music has loaded, you will have access to this week's "Best New Album" along with a number of options for browsing the past 12 weeks' worth of "Best New Albums." You can:
- Browse through a list of previous albums by typing
list
. - Explore albums by genre. Just type
genre
. - Type
score
to check out the highest scoring albums.
If at any point you need a refresher on your options, simply type help
to access a list of instructions.
Once you've finished exploring, type exit
to quit the program.
After checking out the repo, run bin/setup
to install dependencies.
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
, and then run bundle exec rake release
, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem
file to rubygems.org.
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/cyantis/best_music.
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.