Beginners problem with database and datamapper

Hi all!

I'm a complete beginner at this so please bear with me...I dont program
at all but if I need to then I have been trying to use Ruby.

I made a hash with some URL's and i'm looping through this hash and
using the  url stored there and getting some info from a site that i'm
storing into a file. Im attaching my code. This actually works :)

Now I would like to store the information in a db table. So I would like
to modify my code. I created an sqlite3 db with two tables called 'urls'
and 'stats'. 'urls' have the columns 'ID','Description', 'URL' and
'stats' have the columns 'ID','Date','Title'.

Now, I need to connect to my database and fetch this data. I have used
DataMapper for this.

My questions:
Should I query the rows one by one?
Should I query the whole table store into a hash and the loop through?
When I fetch the row how can I get the column URL?

My working code:
require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'

url = {  "1" => "http://www.ruby-forum.com/",
    "2" => "http://www.stackoverflow.com/",
    "3" => "http://www.ruby-doc.org/"
  }
time=Time.now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")
File.open("Stats_Test.txt","a+") do |vStats|
#Loop - hash
  url.each do |number,url|
      agent = Mechanize.new
      page = agent.get(url)
      title = agent.page.title.strip
      vStats.puts "#{time}  #{number}  #{title}\n"
  end
end


My modified code so far:

require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'
require 'data_mapper'

#Sqlite3 connection
DataMapper.setup(:default, 'sqlite:///Ruby/Stats/StatsDB.sqlite')

class Url
  include DataMapper::Resource
end
class Stats
  include DataMapper::Resource
end

time=Time.now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")

int = 0
num = 3

#What to do here?
while int<num do
   ds = Url.get(int)
   #ds has the first row. Now how do I get the column 'URL'?
   agent = Mechanize.new
   page = agent.get(ds:url) #I want to give it the url from the table
   title = agent.page.title.strip #get the title from website
   #write title to database table stats
    #Havent thgought of this yet :)
end


Any suggestions are apreciated!

Br
cristian

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