From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-08-18T06:25:08+09:00
Subject: Re: reading website

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:15:10 +0200, fabsy <fabbyfabs@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks!
> I've got it working..
>
> ---
> require "open-uri"
>
>
> print 'Skriv in adress: '
> addr = gets.chomp
>
>
> 	open(addr) do |addr|
>   	fil = File.open('file', 'a')
> 	fil << addr.read
> 	fil.close
> end
> ---
>
> Is that a good way to write it?
> I also saw that the first "word" in the file 'file' was
> #<StringIO:0x25350>.. What does that mean?
>
>


It means you wrote an input stream object into the file. Which seems  
Weird. Wasn't there anything in 'file' before this script started? You set  
it to append, so that might be a leftover from some other script you wrote  
that used that file. Delete it, or open the file with the 'w' flag instead  
of 'a', and run it again?

<rant>
Also, you might want to avoid open(addr) {|addr| ... }, reusing the same  
variable name. It's probably not the issue here, but shadowing variables  
is inherently confusing. YMMV.
</rant>

David Vallner