On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:11:33AM -0400, Mike Richards wrote: > I'm building a little test app here that validates a given URL. I made > a method outside of Shoes.app and it works fine, but when I try using > that method inside Shoes.app, I get some very strange behavior.
I would stay away from OpenURI. Not only is it slow, but it will stall your whole application. All HTTP calls need to be threaded, so we use the `download` method in Shoes: <http://help.shoooes.net/App.html#download> And Shoes comes with Hpricot, so you don't need to load RubyGems. <http://gist.github.com/18666> _why
