From: Ben Bleything <ben@...>
Date: 2010-03-13T06:54:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Hpricot Relative Path

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem is that the path is relative.
> I've done a little googling, queried my ruby and rails ML archives, glanced
> at hpricot code, and looked through the method lists for open-uri and
> hpricot.
> So far, I don't see anything that looks very useful.
> Is there a way to have it give me the absolute path so that I can reference
> the picture later?

Hpricot is just telling you what's in the HTML.  Munging the
document's contents are your responsibility, not the parser's :)

> The only thing I've found that works so far involves string manipulation,
> which seems like a brittle workaround to replace something that probably
> exists if I could just find it.

Look into the URI library.

  require 'uri'

  uri = URI.parse( "http://yfrog.com/03gssacj" )
  uri.path = # your hpricot magic to get the image path goes here

Ben