From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2009-03-16T15:30:25+09:00
Subject: Re: `&' interpreted as argument prefix


On Mar 15, 2009, at 21:14 , Arun Kumar wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm new to rubi and at present i'm trying to write a sample code for
> html extraction and store it in the database. The following is the  
> code
> for that :
>
> doc = Hpricot(open("http://www.google.com/"))
> (doc/"a").each do |link|
>   if (link.attributes['class'] == 'gb1')
>      href =  link.inner_text.strip
>        con = DBI.connect("DBI:Mysql:Sample:localhost", "arunkumar",
> "123456")
>        stat = con.prepare("Insert into hello values ('', ?, 'GK', 71,
> 'female')")
>        stat.execute("#{href}")
>        stat.finish
>        con.commit
>        puts "Records have been inserted"
>    else
>        puts "Sorry! No matches found."
>    end
> end
>
> When i execute it all works well except a warning saying :
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/hpricot-0.6.164/lib/hpricot/builder.rb:26:
> warning: `&' interpreted as argument prefix

that's from hpricot and won't change anytime soon :/

you may want to switch to mechanize instead. Kill two birds with one  
stone.