From: Charles Lowe <aquasync@...>
Date: 2007-05-08T20:37:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Pass data to a variable

Seth .. wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've create a simple screen scraper which sends a message to a Jabber
> client for notification.  The scraper portion works as does the Jabber
> portion but I'm having trouble passing the data from the scraper to the
> Jabber client.
> 
> Here's what gets all the data in the scraper portion
> 
> 
>   link.search("//font[@class='hosts']").each do |host|
> 
>   host.to_html.match(/[a-z]+[0-9]*\.(foo|bar)\.[a-z]+/)
> 
>   end
> 
> I then have Jabber setup as follows
> 
>   cl = Client::new(myJID, false)
>   cl.connect
>   cl.auth(myPassword)
>   m = Message::new(to,
> body).set_type(:normal).set_id('1').set_subject(subject)
>   cl.send(m)
>   cl.close
> 
> I somehow have to get the data into the body variable.  Any ideas?

Not quite sure if I understand the question, but you can pass any 
arbitrary ruby object as the text body by serializing it using YAML. ie:

  require 'yaml'

  body = hosts.to_yaml
  m = Message::new(to, body).....


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