From: Sean Felipe Wolfe <ether.joe@...>
Date: 2012-03-18T07:22:35+09:00
Subject: noob: http script to google finance

Hello everybody, I'm learning Ruby, coming from Java and Python.

I thought a good first project would be to duplicate a script I've
previously done in Python, which takes a list of stock symbols and
does an http GET from google finance to pull the current stock price.

I started out by looking at the net.http library. However the
documentation isn't super descriptive as far as usage:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/Net/HTTP/Get.html

This was a bit surprising to me coming from Python where the docs are
pretty good. Bascially, I am expecting to do a get and ruby returns a
string of the page html.

Is there another place documentation wise I should be looking? Or do I
just grab the interpreter and start experimenting? That's fine also,
but if there is a better documentation source I thought I'd ask.

Thanks!

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