Ruby HTML Parsing

One of our last pre-launch tasks was to reload some indexed education material into our materials database to seed the content. We originally were using Rubyful Soup as our HTML parser, but noticed that it's painfully slow. So today we moved to Hpricot, which is much faster but poorly documented. In addition, Hpricot seems to be lacking some basic methods for things like moving back and forth between siblings, so we'll probably extend the library with a bunch of helpers.

Comments

[Kaushal Patel]

Actually, I have been reading your book 'Unix for Programmers and Users' for past few weeks now.

And I must say, it's a great book. So, I was searching for more about that book on Google, and ended up being here.

[Graham Glass]

Thanks for the compliment Kaushel! I enjoyed writing the book, and use it almost daily as my own reference guide.

Cheers,
Graham