The Oracle of Bacon

The goals of this assignment are as follows:

1. Give you more exposure to RSpec and to more advanced and idiomatic Ruby programming

2. Introduce you to important technologies and libraries used in service-oriented architecture, including parsing XML using XPath expressions and calling RESTful APIs of a remote service

3. Get you accustomed to reading both RSpec code and Ruby app code.

Generally useful documentation pointers, in addition to those specific to this assignment scattered throughout the handout:

Nokogiri docs: http://nokogiri.org/

Docs for Ruby libraries Net::HTTP, URI, CGI: http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.3.0

Note: Before starting to work on this assignment, run the following command from the directory containing this README file: bundle install