Hi, folks,

I want to use Hpricot to get data out of a table of the following web page:
http://tubic.tju.edu.cn/deg/information-e.php?ac=DEG20010958

and save it into a SQL database with DB field names such as "Accession
Number", "GeneName" (corresponding to the first column of the table)
[their respective values would be "DEG20010958", "RPO31",
respectively, in the second column of table to be extracted using
hpricot).

This is a pretty old web page. I have two questions:
(1) I can not find a unique selector/class ID for extracting the
values (second column of the table). I guess I missed something. How
can I do it?
(2) It seems that ActiveRecord should be used to put the extracted
data (values) into the SQL database. Is this the right approach for
it? If so, where can I find good resource to refer to as I am not
familiar with ActiveRecord or techniques similar to it.

Any hints would be highly appreciated.

Thank you very much,

Robert

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