From: Yuri Leikind <YuriLeikind@...>
Date: 2001-11-26T23:26:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26514] Re: New Ruby user / HTML Parser / Module repository


corion@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de wrote:
> 
> Hello everybody !
> 
> I have just joined the list after two days of using Ruby. A bit about my
> background - I come via (Turbo) Pascal, x86 assembly language to Perl, Python
> and now Ruby, and must say that language-wise, Ruby is the nicest thing I've
> seen from the three languages (OK, the promised saviour Perl 6 could be the same
> or better, but Ruby delivers now what Perl 6 only promises).

Welcome to the Programming-Is-Fun-Again language!


> 
> But I haven't subscribed to praise the virtues of Ruby to the converted - I
> searched the web to find some modules I wanted to use, but didn't find a
> repository comparable to CPAN. Most painful to me was the lack of a HTML parser,
> so I went out and rolled my own, as the only link I could find was out of date.
> My port is a straight port of Gisle Aas' HTML::Parser module, with the (really
> nice) addition to convert it into an iterator (which makes sense for my main
> subclass, the HTML::LinkParser, which yield()s the links).

Check Ruby Application Archive for various libraries 
and tools -
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa.html

Yuri Leikind