This web application uses the Sinatra web framework and uses ActiveRecord to interface with a SQLite Database.

The cook_roulette app works by having the user submit a URL to to an allrecipes.com recipe. Using Nokogiri, cook_roulette scraps the recipe to find the ingredient list and save it to the app's database.

Then the user can identify common ingredients across multiple recipes. For example, one recipe can call for "2 cups of shredded carrots" and another recipe can call for "3 Carrots (chopped)", but the common ingredient is "Carrots".

The user can then get a meal plan that is generated by randomly picking recipes submitted by the user. The meal plan comes with a grocery list which is grouped by common ingredients.