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This is long overdue (0.2.8 is out for about a week already), but anyway, here we go: ============ What''s this? ============ scRUBYt! is a very easy to learn and use, yet powerful Web scraping framework based on Hpricot and mechanize. It''s purpose is to free you from the drudgery of web page crawling, looking up HTML tags, attributes, XPaths, form names and other typical

I have skimmed through many web pages, how to''s and editorials, my final conclusion is that the programming language for this particular part of the program is going to be Ruby. There are many reasons: 1. Apple will support it in 10.5 2. There seems to be a lot of support for it in the Mac community 3. Ruby developers seem to be Mac people. 4. There is better documentation than

Hi R list, I would like to automate, or speed up the process from which I take several separate datasets, stored in .csv formate, import and merge them by a common variable. So far I have greatly sped up the loading process but cannot think of a way to automate the merger of all datasets into a common data.frame. My apologies if this has been covered, any R search suggestions are

Hi, I installed the require ruby gems and it is there in the lib directory .. but when i tried to call it using require its not working 1) with irb: i tired require ''rubygems'' its throwing me false and for require ''scrubyt'' its throwing the below given error message LoadError: no such file to load -- parse_tree_reloaded from

Hello All: I have been working with <a href="http://ruby-pdf.rubyforge.org/pdf-writer/index.html">Austin Ziegler''s PDF::Writer</a> as a means to produce PDF documents from my Rails app. I am stumped on how to iterate through a collection of items and output them in a table format. The way I have tried it so far only returns the last item in the collection -

Hi I am trying to use active scaffold to build a polymorphic model . I have a number of models that can be featured and I have a Feature model that belongs_to :item, :polymorphic => true In my config.columns I include :item_type and item_id, I also added :item_name to show the name of the record in the form. In the form, when a type of model is selected I populate the select box for

Hello, Using the RpgSQL package, there must be a way to get the row names into the table automatically. In the example below, I'm trying to get rid of the cbind line, yet have the row names of the data frame populate a column. > bentest = matrix(1:4,2,2) > dimnames(bentest) = list(c('ra','rb'),c('ca','cb')) > bentest ca cb ra 1 3 rb 2 4 >

It looks to me that hpricot is a dependency to building rspec: euclid% rake pre_commit (in /Users/smtlaissezfaire/ruby/projects/rspec/hpricot) rake aborted! Could not find RubyGem hpricot (>= 0.0.0) /Users/smtlaissezfaire/ruby/projects/rspec/hpricot/rakefile:9 (See full trace by running task with --trace) Let me know if I''m wrong. Otherwise, I''ll submit a patch in the docs.

Dear all, @doc = Hpricot(open("#{RAILS_ROOT}" + "/public/server_exe/#{list.file_path}")) i need to add <img src = "/ScreenCapture/#{@file_name}"/> element to my @doc hpricot instance.. Please help me... how can i add the above img src element to the @doc hpricot instance.. Thank you -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message

Hi, I have been stumped by this error Hpricot is generating in my rails app. The error looks like this: $ script/console Loading development environment (Rails 2.0.2) >> str = ''<p>lorem ipsum <a href="http://dolor.com/">dolor</a> sit amet.</p>'' => "<p>lorem ipsum <a href=\"http://dolor.com/\">dolor</a>

Hi guys, I wanted to fetch some info from webpage and use it in my db. I read hpricot is one way to do it. But the problem is I''m unable to use it with my app. For some reason after successfully installing hpricot it fails when I try to use it in the rails console. I''ve been trying to fix this for the last four-five days. I''m stumped ! I tried re-installing everything

This is in windows .. So from irb, I can load hpricot ok. (ruby 1.8.7) C:\Users\Laurence\rails-play\plug-test>irb irb(main):001:0> require ''hpricot'' LoadError: no such file to load -- hpricot from (irb):1:in `require'' from (irb):1 irb(main):002:0> require ''rubygems'' => true irb(main):003:0> require

Hi I am probably missing something, so please help: I have a table called ''zipped_responses'' with an ''item_names'' varchar column. I want to create a comma separated string of ''names''. I have an ''add_item_names'' method which takes a ''name'' and put it at the end of a string with a preceding comma. The

assert_tag smells bad. Hpricot smells nice (apricotty!). Testing your views with Hpricot: http://www.lukeredpath.co.uk/index.php/2006/07/07/testing-your-rails- views-with-hpricot/ Big thanks to _why for a great little library! Feedback is appreciated. rSpec integration coming soon (hopefully!). Cheers, Luke Redpath contact@lukeredpath.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML

Hello, I''ve been trying for hours to parse an XML using Hpricot. Usually it''s not a problem. Here''s my simple code: #This works and outputs the proper xml data @url1 = ''http://www.sportingnews.com/stories/sportingnews/MLB/rss.xml'' @page1 = Hpricot(open(@url1)) <%= @page 1 %> #This does not work, and I''m scratching my head @url1 =

Hi all! In my app I want to detect what country a visitor is viewing from by their IP. Although it''s by no means perfect, the simplest option I''ve found is by using this site: http://api.hostip.info/ by passing the ip address as a query, this site returns an xml file with the country as one of the tags. http://api.hostip.info/?ip=6.255.255.255 returns (amongst other things)

Hi, Anyone know a way to traverse/query the DOM in a response? I''m trying to write reusable story step implementations and as much as possible want to work with the actual response from a previous GET. As an example, I often have buttons that POST/PUT a hidden value. My goal is a reusable step implementation that takes the button label and works the existing response DOM to make an

Hello to the list and thanks to Aaron for the cool software. I''ve been fooling around with Mechanize and Hpricot for a couple of days and from the docs I''ve read, the following code SHOULD work but doesn''t. I''ve tried the same code on a couple of different sites and I get the same exception for each. Any pointers or suggestions are appreciated.

Hi, I want to get the details from a table which is displayed on a Web page into the Database. How to read that Web page ? I mean if there is table Student details like Roll no., name etc. And I want to read that table & store it into my database in table My_Student. How to do this? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are

hi - i have strings that i need to extract keywords from. the string might have html tags, urls, etc. i need to extract the keywords from the string. i imagine i''m not the first guy to have to tackle this problem. is there a gem i can use or anyone have any ideas how to approach this? thanks, dino