From: Ammar Ali <ammarabuali@...>
Date: 2010-11-12T09:55:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing XML with Ruby

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:12 AM, jackster the jackle
<johnsheahan@att.net> wrote:
> I need to hit an https link and pass a username and password in order to
> pull down some records in xml format. I was thinking that the easiest
> way to do this is to shell out to curl and then parse my xml provided
> that I could pass the username/password in the url.
>
> Can anyone recommend an easy way to accomplish this?

The ruby way of doing this would be to use the Net::HTTP from the
standard library. It does https too. The docs are at:

  http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/index.html

As for parsing XML, there are a few options, but Nokogiri is probably
the easiest to learn and deal with. Easily googlable, and there are a
few blog posts with samples.

HTH, and have fun!
Ammar