Rails - Sep 2009 - WEIRD: hpricot causes Error 500

So this is weird. I have this in one of my controllers:

    f = open("http://www.google.com")
   @s = f.read

And that''s fine. I can echo @s back out in the view, and it works like
a charm. But the second I do this (in the controller):

    doc = Hpricot(@s)

I get an error 500 (internal server error). I have rubygems, open-uri,
and hpricot all included. Any ideas what''s going on? I''m under
a
pressing deadline and this one''s really got me stumped.

Thanks in advance!!!

Quoting jason
<jason.w.victor-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>:
> 
> So this is weird. I have this in one of my controllers:
> 
>     f = open("http://www.google.com")
>    @s = f.read
> 
> And that''s fine. I can echo @s back out in the view, and it works
like
> a charm. But the second I do this (in the controller):
> 
>     doc = Hpricot(@s)
> 
> I get an error 500 (internal server error). I have rubygems, open-uri,
> and hpricot all included. Any ideas what''s going on? I''m
under a
> pressing deadline and this one''s really got me stumped.
> 
Look in the log, there is usually a stack dump.  Are you sure that the entire
datastructure is in @s?  I.e., that the end of the HTML/XML is in the string.
Also there can be parsing errors, encoding errors, etc.  So find the error
message/exception type  in logs, or catch (rescue) it in your own code.

Jeffrey