Conceptual disagreement?

[ghost]

I feel like the #SCRAPE_INDEX_PAGE method description doesn't necessarily jive with what the rspec test expects from us. From reading the description it feels conceptually like we can get the values for our hash keys just from what we've scraped from the page. We don't really get a hint that we might need to modify those values (namely for the : profile_url value). The scraped data in this case does not match the test output; we need to add additional directions to a specific local file path for the test to pass, rather than the actual url value that we can scrape from the index.html page. We are not given any explanation as to why this output needs to be different, so those more curious are left to wonder why for a symbol named profile_url we need to output a local file path instead.

Just my 2 cents.

[pletcher]

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[ghost]

I don't think this is a bug per se, just how the information we're presented in the student scraper readme seems fundamentally different than what the test expects. If we look at the index.html, what we get back when we look for what appears to be a profile url is . The test expects "./fixtures/student-site/students/jennifer-anton.html".

Am I making any sense about where I got confused?

Hi there,

Thank you for the suggestions. We updated the assignment README and specs to provide a more accurate description of the Scraper.scrape_index_page method input and output.

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