From: ChrisH <chris.hulan@...>
Date: 2006-08-18T04:55:11+09:00
Subject: Re: reading website


fabsy wrote:
> Hey!
> I have been going through some basic IO stuff and want to get into
> something more "advanced".
> I would like to make a script who asks for a website and takes the
> information (the text) on the website and put it into a textfile..


Have a look at http://ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/, the section
titled 'Network and Web', for the low level details.

Open-uri is a nice wrapper to make web IO simple as File IO

Look into Mechanize/Hpricot/etc if you want to get fancy  9^)

Cheers