Simple Ruby Project

Ruby
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Hello all,

I’ve just started with Ruby and decided to do a little project. Since
this is my first time doing
something related with the internet, I could sure use some guidelines.
Let me first tell you what my project is.

I’m planning to create a simple web page, with only an input box. The
input should be used
as a search term that will retrieve the results from google and
display them on my page.

Simple enough, I still have some question regarding the design. Here
they are:

1.) I’m planning to do this as simple as possible. I know how to
retireve data from google,
therefore I will create only a simple class which will then be
imported into the
HTML file. Is this a good idea, or is there another, simpler/cleaner/
better way?

2.) Is the best way to retrieve the data as a HTML page and work by
reading lines,
cleaning the clutter with simple regex methods?

Thank you for your help.

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Rob wrote:

display them on my page.

2.) Is the best way to retrieve the data as a HTML page and work by
reading lines,
cleaning the clutter with simple regex methods?

Thank you for your help.

Hi and welcome,

there is a good library for similar things: http://nokogiri.org/
have a look at the small example in the middle of the page

best regards
ralf

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Rob wrote:

I’m planning to create a simple web page, with only an input box. The
input should be used
as a search term that will retrieve the results from google and
display them on my page.

So you will need to run this under a web server, to allow your client to
POST the input box contents to your application.

It sounds like you’re considering rhtml or cgi-bin. Those would work,
but I think you should have a look at Sinatra too. It’s very simple and
neat.

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Thanks for all the help guys, I appreciate it. I also thought rails is
a bit too much, but I’ll def try Sinatra. Thanks again.

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Rob wrote:

Hello all,

I’ve just started with Ruby and decided to do a little project. Since
this is my first time doing
something related with the internet, I could sure use some guidelines.
Let me first tell you what my project is.

I’m planning to create a simple web page, with only an input box. The
input should be used
as a search term that will retrieve the results from google and
display them on my page.

Simple enough, I still have some question regarding the design. Here
they are:

1.) I’m planning to do this as simple as possible. I know how to
retireve data from google,
therefore I will create only a simple class which will then be
imported into the
HTML file. Is this a good idea, or is there another, simpler/cleaner/
better way?

It’s probably a good idea to use one of the lighter-weight Web
frameworks such as Sinatra or Merb for this. (Rails is probably
overkill for a project like this, but you might want to consider it.)

2.) Is the best way to retrieve the data as a HTML page and work by
reading lines,
cleaning the clutter with simple regex methods?

Why not use the Google Search API?

Thank you for your help.

Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]