From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2008-01-28T19:08:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Extracting Data from a Webpage

7stud -- wrote:
>
> As with all ruby classes, new() creates an instance. Therefore, in the 
> code example I was wondering about:
> 
>> puts Net::HTTP.new('www.google.com').get('/').
>>   body[/<title>(.*?)<.title>/i,1]
> 
> new() creates an instance, which is being used to call get(), so the 
> version of get() being called is the instance method.  Yet, the docs say 
> the get() instance method "Gets data from path on the connected-to 
> host".  What connected to host?  According to the docs on new() it says, 
> "This method does not open the TCP connection."
> 

As far as I can tell, you should have to call start() on a Net::HTTP 
instance in order to open a connection, e.g.:

str = Net::HTTP.new('www.google.com').start().get('/').body
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