Rails - Jul 2006 - How do you grab the source HTML from a url?

I want to grab all of the list of users from my app and make a nice 
formatted list of them every week, and I was wondering what rails 
command would grab the source html from a url?

Thanks,
Ben Lisbakken

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Ben Lisbakken wrote:
> I want to grab all of the list of users from my app and make a nice 
> formatted list of them every week, and I was wondering what rails 
> command would grab the source html from a url?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben Lisbakken
Well, I could just have the app write it directly to a file, but for 
curiosity sake, how would it be done?

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On Monday, July 31, 2006, at 5:16 AM, Ben Lisbakken
wrote:
>Ben Lisbakken wrote:
>> I want to grab all of the list of users from my app and make a nice
>> formatted list of them every week, and I was wondering what rails
>> command would grab the source html from a url?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ben Lisbakken
>
>Well, I could just have the app write it directly to a file, but for
>curiosity sake, how would it be done?
>
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require ''open-uri''

lines=[]
open(''http://url/to/parse'') do |f|
  lines = f.readlines
end

That should dump the entire thing into an array.
There are some libraries to help you parse that mess, but it''s late and
I don''t remember which ones they are.

_Kevin
www.sciwerks.com

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