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Hi all, I am scraping a table off of another site and inserting it onto my site. you can see an example on the initial page at: http://mthosts.heroku.com. I''m referring to the green box with the snowbird weather and snowfall information. this box has been scraped off of the snowbird site at: http://www.snowbird.com/ski_board/snowreport.php The problem is that on the snowbird site it

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>

Hi, I am not able to find out a simple example to find out the how the method works: > Nokogiri::XML::EntityReference::new (http://nokogiri.org/Nokogiri/XML/EntityReference.html#method-c-new) > Nokogiri::XML::Document#canonicalize (http://nokogiri.org/Nokogiri/XML/Document.html#method-i-canonicalize) Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message

I am using http.get in a model to parse html code returned from a Oracle server. My first try was to use assertions (assert and assert_select) to test and parse the html code. But I have problems including the methods in the model. Have tried both "include" and copy/paste to get assertion methods into my model. Works as a model, but I get load errors when I am using the model from a

Got a question hopefully someone can answer - I am working on functionality to match on certain nodes of a largish (65mb) xml file. I implemented this with REXML and was 2 minutes and counting before I killed the process. After this, I just opened the console and loaded the file into a string and did a regex search for my data -- the result was almost instantaneous. The question is, if I can get

I have Rails 3 and Ruby 1.9.2 Installing rmagick (2.13.1) with native extensions /opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/rubygems/installer.rb:551:in `rescue in block in build_extensions'': ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. (Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError) /opt/local/bin/ruby19 extconf.rb checking for Ruby version >= 1.8.5... yes checking for gcc... yes checking for

Do you know when you are filling out a registration for a new account, and you keep pressing next to fill the rest of the information in separate pages? I''d like to do that, but I have no idea how. Basically I have a company model with its information, and a contacts model, with belongs to my company (also each company has only one contact), and I''d like for the user to fill in

What''s the best way to retrieve the current path? (i.e. /posts/1) -- 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 rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Hello, I have in my db a register what have special characters, and when I try to put on my form to edit this values, this happens: incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT Extracted source (around line #4): 1: <%= form_for :group, :url => { :action => "update" } do |f| %> 2: <%= utf8_enforcer_tag %> 3: <label>Nome do grupo</label>

Hi just wondering if there is a easy way to turn an xml entity into a object like of type OpenStruct where i can access everything like a property? It''s kind of like parsing xml, I already know about nokogiri, but I want to work is a OpenStruct and not a DOM object, does that make sense? =P -- Kind Regards, Rajinder Yadav | DevMentor.org | Do Good! ~ Share Freely GNU/Linux:

Hi, I''m doing one module in my site, there I need to import user blog into my site. I can use RSS feeds to read the blog information but using RSS feeds I''m not getting entire information. So, I need to scrape the user blog page. How to scrape a pages without knowing its html structure of a page? Please anyone can help me for this issue. Thanks in advance. -- You received this

Hello there, I try already third day to find a way, how to improve my upload about progress bar. I use for upload of images the paperclip gem and in my app jQuery library. Could anyone give me, please, any help or tip, how to do? I tried to search, read a discussions, but I still don''t know, how to do... So, thank you so much for every advice. -- Posted via

hi, i am using <%= s.submit ''Product save'' %> when i click it, following error appears " Routing Error uninitialized constant ProductsController" could any one provide me solution ? thanks, -pab -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send

Hello, I have a problem when I try to add the gem therubyracer. I put in my prompt: bundle install, and this error appears: C:\rails\organily>bundle install Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/......... Using rake (0.9.2.2) Using i18n (0.6.0) Using multi_json (1.3.6) Using activesupport (3.2.3) Using builder (3.0.0) Using activemodel (3.2.3) Using erubis (2.7.0) Using journey

Why the string interpolation is not working inside the Nokogiri method `#search` ? require ''nokogiri'' doc = Nokogiri::HTML::Document.parse <<-eotl <div> <p>foo</p> <p>foo</p> <p>bar</p> </div> eotl doc.class # => Nokogiri::HTML::Document class Person attr_accessor :name end ram = Person.new

Hi One of our customers has a Filemaker database which needs to be accessed for some data. Using the Web Companion, I can query the database for an XML version of the data. I need to be able to push this data into an array of hashes, so I can access it in a more convenient way. Filemaker is able to provide me with 2 XML formats (DSO-XML and FMP-XML): *********** DSO-XML ***********

hi I always get this message today WARNING: Nokogiri was built against LibXML version 2.8.0, but has dynamically loaded 2.9.0 I googled by all solution is for mac, I am use linux(openSUSE 12.3) any one can help? thanks in advance -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

All, I''m using Nokogiri to handle the following problem: I have a piece of HTML, and for certain text nodes, I need to insert <span> tags into the text of these nodes at a certain place. What I am doing is finding the place where I want to insert the <span>, let''s say index X of the text node''s text, and doing the following: 1) Setting the node''s

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

Hi, Not sure if there is a better place to post this. The libxml-ruby mailing list doesn''t have much activity. We are getting occasional errors on our production box, that I can''t duplicate in testing. It''s not even reproducible on the production box with the same inputs, but I''ve managed to track down (via a lot of print statements into the Apache