From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-03-25T20:15:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Change object class

Seth Doe wrote:
> I'm still very new to Ruby and am having trouble with a small script
> that I'm working on.  I am getting some data from a screen scrape using
> hpricot which works well although after I get the data, I wanted to use
> the result as a string but the class has changed.
> 
> When I print the class with 'puts foo.class' I get the following.
> 
> seth@oxygen seth $ ./mon_scraper.rb
> Hpricot::Elem
> 
> How would I go about getting this to be
> 
> seth@oxygen seth $ ./mon_scraper.rb
> String
> 
Use the Hpricot::Elem#to_html method.

-- 
Alex