Web scraping is an approach for extracting data from websites that don’t have an API. Web scraping code is inherently “brittle” (prone to breaking over time due to changes in the website content and structure), but it’s a flexible technique with a broad range of uses.

Have you ever struggled to understand what a piece of code like this is trying to say?

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Postgres (or PostgreSQL) is an open source database. Ruby on Rails is an open source web framework written in Ruby. Rails is database agnostic, meaning it can be used with a variety of different databases. By default it assumes that MySQL is being used, but it's quite easy to use with Postgres instead

RailsInstaller is the quickest way to go from zero to developing Ruby on Rails applications. Whether you're on Windows or Mac, RailsInstaller has you covered.

RailsInstaller streamlines the process for Rails developers to enable them to be successful.

We will be setting up a Ruby on Rails development environment on Windows 10.The reason we're going to be using Bash on Ubuntu on Windows because it allows you to run Linux on your Windows machine. Most Ruby on Rails tutorials and dependencies work best on Linux, so this allows you to get the best of both worlds.