From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2006-12-18T03:11:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Grabbing data off a webpage

On 12/17/06, Peter Szinek <peter@rubyrailways.com> wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> How about:
>
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'open-uri'
> require 'hpricot'
> require 'enumerator'
>
> Record = Struct.new("Record", :id, :title, :author, :book_level, :points)
> records = []
>
> cells =
> Hpricot(open('http://yorkcountyschools.org/mves/arlist/3-3.4.htm'))/"/html/body/table/tbody/tr//td"
>
>
> cells.map { |elem| elem.inner_html }.each_slice(5) do |slice|
>   records << Record.new(*slice)
> end


clever solution peter.

If you wanted to adapt this to use Ruport instead of a Struct (and get
the features I showed)
Try:

records = [].to_table([:id, :title, :author, :book_level, :points])

and then replace the appending code with

records << slice

This would allow struct-like, hash-like, and array-like access as well
as access to Ruport's data manipulation and formatting tools.