http://scrubyt.org WWW::Mechanize and Hpricot on Steroids Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:25:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You can download my EURUKO (the European Ruby Conference) 2007 slides from here. Enjoy! http://scrubyt.org/my-euruko-2007-slides/ Thanks to Paul Nikitochkin a.k.a. pftg, scRUBYt! made a great leap to ensure win32 compatibility. Paul created JscRUBYt! - the JRuby version of scRUBYt! which should be easy to install under win32 even if you are not a level 64 microsoft compiling ninja (in fact, it requires no compiling, fiddling ... http://scrubyt.org/announcing-jscrubyt-no-more-win32-problems/ After a long-long time, a lot of bugfixes, brainstorming sessions, coding, coding, coding, cans of red bull and coding, we are proud to present scRUBYt! 0.3.4! Judging from the posts on the forum, people are not aware of quite lot powerful features (which is mainly my fault as I was lazy ... http://scrubyt.org/a-hot-new-release-034-is-out-whats-new/ scRUBYt! has dug its way into the investment business :). No joke - check out this scrummy tutorial created by Doug Bromley to find out more. A refreshing mix of business and technology is served here: a nice scraper that returns dividend yields summarized all in one place and a ... http://scrubyt.org/let-the-dogs-out/ Google is back on stage! I have dusted one of the most known examples in scRUBYt!'s history and wrapped it in a brand new coat. Well, here it is, hot off the frying pan. If you are a scRUBYt! newbie this is a perfect place to start to ... http://scrubyt.org/scrapin-google-in-no-sec/ This is a new series on scraping different (hopefully typical) web pages to show off various scRUBYt! techniques. We will start of with a pricegrabber.com extractor. Check out the big picture to see what will we accomplish today! You will see an example of: filling and submitting a textfield crawling to the detail ... http://scrubyt.org/scraping-pricegrabber-with-scrubyt/ Hey all, I hope things around scRUBYt! are going to boil again :-). I am happy to announce that the community has started a new series of step-by-step tutorials! The first piece has just hit the road, be sure to check it out. According to my estimate it hits the intermediate ... http://scrubyt.org/new-things-on-the-block/ As a (positive) side-effect of Ruby's and RoR's current popularity, we can witness the mushrooming of Ruby/Rails blogs of different size, shape, color and quality. While this is a great thing in general, it is easy to get overflooded with all this information pouring in from every side - ... http://scrubyt.org/ranking-rubyrails-blogs-with-scrubyt-using-alexa-and-technorati/ We have decided it's time to start a scRUBYt! wiki (thanks to Whitefolkz for coming up with the idea and starting to work on it). You can find the wiki here. Whitefolkz already posted some guidelines and additional info. Please post your experience, extractors, guides, tutorials or any other nuggets ... http://scrubyt.org/scrubyt-wiki/ Thanks to thescRUBYt! forum, the team has received a *lot* of feedback - we have tried to incorporate the most features requested by the most people, also fixing a few annoying bugs. Well, I guess no one is interested in this introductory babbling, so here you go: the CHANGELOG for ... http://scrubyt.org/scrubyt-030-released/