Change object class

[Seth Doe]

I'm still very new to Ruby and am having trouble with a small script
that I'm working on. I am getting some data from a screen scrape using
hpricot which works well although after I get the data, I wanted to use
the result as a string but the class has changed.

When I print the class with 'puts foo.class' I get the following.

seth@oxygen seth $ ./mon_scraper.rb
Hpricot::Elem

How would I go about getting this to be

seth@oxygen seth $ ./mon_scraper.rb
String

Regards,

Seth

 

[Alex Young]

I'm still very new to Ruby and am having trouble with a small script
that I'm working on. I am getting some data from a screen scrape using
hpricot which works well although after I get the data, I wanted to use
the result as a string but the class has changed.

When I print the class with 'puts foo.class' I get the following.

seth@oxygen seth $ ./mon_scraper.rb
Hpricot::Elem

How would I go about getting this to be

seth@oxygen seth $ ./mon_scraper.rb
String

Use the Hpricot::Elem#to_html method.

 

[Seth ..]

Gah! Genius. Thank you.

Use the Hpricot::Elem#to_html method.