I'm starting a little experiment using https://github.com/rubycdp/ferrum to play around with a small project idea.

The plan is to monitor changes in an MMO public database pages and hook that into a Discord bot for our gaming community, things like new items being added, stat changes, or updates to the in-game market listings.

Ferrum makes it easy to automate a browser session and grab the info we need, sounds like a fun weekend project.

I’ll update this post later with my implementation of the Ferrum gem for it, and some examples of how I structured the code to keep it easy to maintain.