From: Jason Stewart <jstewart@...>
Date: 2010-10-12T09:09:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Sanity Check

Ruby provides wonderful tools to do all of this. So no, you're not
completely nuts :)

You could use Nokogiri (http://nokogiri.org/) to extract data from
websites. Ruby (1.9) also has a very nice CSV library that's fast and
easy to use. It's also pretty trivial to just go straight into the DB
with Ruby DBI or some of the ORMs like DataMapper and ActiveRecord.

Cheers,
Jason

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 7:25 PM, flebber <flebber.crue@gmail.com> wrote:
> HI
>
> Just a quick check. I am starting into Ruby with little interest in
> Ruby on Rails (its good to know its there though). I want to use Ruby
> as a more data centric means. So in my first case I want to extract
> data from websites and put it in a suitable format xml, csv etc for
> use in excel or later for use in a db application such as mysql or
> postgre.
>
> I am not nuts am I?
>
> I was looking at several comparison and I thought that Ruby dealt with
> lists and data in a logical fashion.
>
>