From: Patrick Hurley <phurley@...>
Date: 2006-04-02T09:41:01+09:00
Subject: Re: new to ruby.. need a code

On 4/1/06, rati_lion@yahoo.com <rati_lion@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thank you. Will take care in future to not post a rough request :-)
>
> Thanks again for this extended help.
>
>
>

You are very welcome. And you are always welcome to request help. So I
don't come off sounding too harsh, let me explain. This is a friendly
community, generally populated by programmers and people striving to
become programmers, so when asking for assistance in this manner, you
will often receive more assistance when you show that you have spent a
little time attempting to do this yourself, or asking for guidance on
how to get started.

As for the name rubyful_soup there are other better named libraries,
but this is based upon a Python library (same author) called Beautiful
Soup -- its claim to fame is that it will handle invalid markup, that
will give most other parsers fits (so it is useful in the real world
when dealing with other peoples "html"). I knew the library because I
had read about it here.

Good luck again
pth