From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2006-03-28T13:05:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Waiter, there's a noob in my soup!

Jeff Pritchard wrote:
> Thanks Gene, but I don't know which end is up with Python.  I'm an old C 
> dog trying to learn a new (ruby) trick.  Would rather not use up any of 
> my precious few functional neurons with Python.
> 
> Anybody have a Ruby example of grabbing html pages from a site map full 
> of links, or an example of using the RubyfulSoup package to grab text 
> pieces from html pages?

I build the RubyStuff.com site by snarfing a series of Cafe Press pages, 
grabbing out links and product descriptions, and reassembling them into 
a more cohesive set of pages.

I wrote about it here:

http://neurogami.com/cafe-fetcher/

What I like about Mechanize (though this may also be true of 
RubyfulSoup; I've not used it) is that it makes it easy to take the 
slurped page parts and create objects that better map to my business logic.



-- 
James Britt

Judge a man by his questions, rather than his answers.
  - Voltaire