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I want to iterate ?nodes? and ?leafs? for a yaml document: thufir@ARRAKIS:~/projects/rss$ thufir@ARRAKIS:~/projects/rss$ ruby user.rb user.rb:6: undefined method `[]'' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError) from user.rb:5:in `each_key'' from user.rb:5 thufir@ARRAKIS:~/projects/rss$ thufir@ARRAKIS:~/projects/rss$ ruby user2.rb user2.rb:5: undefined method `[]'' for

I am trying to get a page which includes a form, but the form is missing from the WWW::Mechanize::Page object. I retrieve it via: page = web_agent.submit(a_different_form) For debugging this problem, I then immediately write the resulting page to two different logs: File.open(''big.html'',''wb'') { |f| f.write(page.body) }

Hello. I''ve read about examples on inheritance with rails. Here is an example: http://juixe.com/techknow/index.php/2006/06/03/rails-single-table-inheritance/ The way is to add a type field in the table. So if I have an Animal class with an attribute name, I can inherit from this class like: Dog < Animal, Cat < Animal, and so on. With the type field in the table I can do Dog.all,

Hi - I have a view: <% content_for(:page) do %> <h1>New user</h1> <% form_for :user, @user, :url => { :action => "create" } do |form| %> <%= render :partial => ''form'', :locals => { :form => form, :genders => @genders} %> <%= submit_tag "Create" %> <%end%> <%

I am new to Mechanize and was wondering if there was a built-in method to get the elements that are on the page that are not part of a form. A couple of examples would be my banking site lists my entries and I want them to go into an array so that I can handle them. Or another site I use, does some categorization for me and I would like to manipulate it and present it differently to a user.

require ''rubygems'' require ''hpricot'' require ''open-uri'' doc = Hpricot(open("http://graph.facebook.com/226723089703")) @doc = doc.to_s.gsub(/"id.+?likes":/,"").gsub("{","").gsub("}","") puts @doc OR require ''rubygems''

HI, I want to grab some information about university names, and I found this term called "web scraping" I search about it in google, and there are tools in ruby. One of them is nokogiri but I''m a bit confused because it seems that it only gets information that its already in an html or xml I found a webpage that have a list of university names as a <select>

I''m trying to implement acts_as_rateable to my Beast installation to give users the option to rate posts (like reddit). I chose acts_as_rateable as it supposedly easily allows reddit-type voting but I''m having some problems setting it up and the documentation seems outdated. (http://www.juixe.com/techknow/index.php/2006/07/05/acts-as-rateable-plugin/) So far, I''ve

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 All I''m trying to build an application which requires to scrap information from a webpage. On trying to perform the action, I get an error while trying to convert the html data to JSON. Has anyone experienced this before and if so can you please tell me how to solve this problem ? Please see below for code snippet and error log. Thanks in advance Anush require

Hi- I''m trying to implement an auto-complete using Yahoo''s autocomplete server, which basically suggests search completions: http://ff.search.yahoo.com/gossip?output=fxjson&command={your searchterms}'' if you want to see the results in your browser, use xml instead: http://ff.search.yahoo.com/gossip?output=xml&command={your searchterms}'' So, I can

Hi - I''m trying to implement a search box that has a pre-filled message "enter search text." The first time it''s selected, I''d like it to clear out, but after that, I''d like it to remain. I imagine lots of people have done this, any ideas how to accomplish this? Thanks, Dino --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this

I have a model that has two properties that both come from the same database table. Let''s say I have a "Lead" model. This Lead has both a contact "State" (as in Colorado, Arkansas, etc.) and a "Property State" where the house he''s looking to refinance is located. Both of these should obviously be objects of the type "state".

Hey all, I want to scrap some content from a website to rails application and wants to authenticate the url of the website which I want to scarp so please help me out.... Thank You!!! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to

When I run rake test:units I get this error: 292 tests, 350 assertions, 2 failures, 13 errors rake aborted! Command failed with status (1): [/usr/local/bin/ruby -I"lib:test" "/ usr/loc...] This error just showed up yesterday --- I have no idea how I caused it. Here is my gem list in case that helps: actionmailer (2.3.2, 2.2.2) actionpack (2.3.2, 2.2.2) activerecord (2.3.2, 2.2.2)

Hey all! Just to preface, I am fairly new to RoR, and brand new to using hpricot. I am using the following code to scrape this xpath: "/html/body/div/div[5]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]" from this url: "http://www.greatnonprofits.org/" Here is my code to do so (taken from igvita.com''s related blogpost): ************* require ''rubygems'' require

Hi, I want to automate somewhat the addition of created_by/updated_by fields on my models (i.e. to include username). What''s the best/recommended way to do this? Would it be to: a) Find out how to extend the ActiveRecord::Base itself (I haven''t extended a class before yet) b) Use a plugin type approach where you have to add a tag manually to each model file which then

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>

I''ve read previous posts to the list stating how Rails lacks multiple key support for database tables, and how support is not planned. I''m OK with that, but I''m wondering if there''s an elegant way to do what I need, for my in-house customer relationship management tool: I have an ACTIVITIES table. That table is a collection of individual, unique activities

I have yet to find a solution for this issue I have tried multiple things that I have found on google, but yet have i found a solution. If someone could help me and point me in the right direction I would be much appreciated. Thanks. rake aborted! uninitialized constant Mysql::Error ** Invoke db:create (first_time) ** Invoke db:load_config (first_time) ** Invoke rails_env (first_time) **