From: Thomas Wieczorek <wieczo.yo@...>
Date: 2008-02-13T22:46:52+09:00
Subject: Re: most useful instance methods

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 8:52 AM, James Britt <james.britt@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>  Write a ruby app that grabs a random API page from ruby-doc.org and
>  brings it up in a browser.
>

What a great idea! I just wrote it. Thank you!

For those interested: It uses the Windows start command to open a site
from the Ruby 1.8.6 Core rubydoc list.

require 'open-uri'
require 'hpricot'

base = "http://ruby-doc.org/core/"
topic_site = Hpricot(open(base + "fr_class_index.html"))
list = topic_site.search("//div[@id='index-entries']/a[@href]")
system("start " + base + list[rand(list.length)].attributes['href'])