stuartpet/smart_dev_test

Smart_Dev_Test

Requirements | Getting Started | Prerequisites | Installing | Use | Running Tests | Author

Requirements

1. Write a program that:

• Receives a log file as an argument (webserver.log is provided) e.g.: ./ webserver.log

• Returns the following:

  • list of webpages with most page views ordered from most pages views to less page views e.g.: /home 90 visits /index 80 visits etc...

  • list of webpages with most unique page views also ordered e.g.: /about/2 8 unique views /index 5 unique views etc...

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

• You will need to be using Ruby version 2.6.0 (type ruby -v into your terminal to see your current version)
  • To download Ruby (if not installed) I use homebrew, but you can find details on all methods here
  • To update your Ruby version you can use RVM (Ruby Version Manager). In your terminal type rvm install ruby-2.6.0
• This program is tested using Rspec

Installing

1. Clone this repo to your local machine
2. Use bundle install
3. Open you REPL, I have used IRB as an example, you may use PRY or another alternative

Use

• Require the file in irb > require './lib/parse.rb'

  • you should see => true if the file has been loaded

• Create a new instance of the Parse class > file = Parse.new

  • you will see something similar to this => #<Parse:0x00007f81921a1f10 @file=[], @webpage_views=[], @unique_views=[]>

• Call the parse_file method on the file and insert the log file to be parsed as the argument

  • example > file.parse_file("webserver.log")

• You will see the file split into webpages and IP adresses

  • example ["/home", "126.318.035.038"]

• You can now call either of the following two methods on the file, depending on what you want to view.

  • show how many times a webpage was visited views_of_pages
  • show unique webpage visits unique_page_visits

• Use quit to end your IRB session

Running Tests

1. If not already done, clone the repo
2. Use bundle install
3. Run rspec from the terminal

Author

Stuart Pethurst