From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2009-03-17T14:42:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Youtube...urgent, please help

Arun Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to ruby and my co. has given me an assignment in ruby. It is
> regarding html extraction.

You probably want Mechanize.

> domain = gets
> #concatinating 'http://www.' with the url to open the page
> url = "http://www."+domain
>   

Take a look at that URL -- I'd say you don't need 'www' in that.

But I'm guessing what's hurting is the newline at the end of it.

Quick fix:

domain = gets.chomp
url = "http://#{domain}"