On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Robert lzw <[email protected]> wrote: > 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,
This has nothing to do with Wt though. Have you tried asking on an Hpricot mailing list? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ witty-interest mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/witty-interest
