working initial version. it can grab the mashable JSON, parse it, and spit it back out on the screen
added code to get new,rising,and hot articles
got the program to successfully print hot titles through web server
i can pass an arbitrary number of article titles to erb views, but it is still mashed together in one line
managed to send array to erb file and print it in browser
working prototype, finished at 16:45 on 7-3-2014