Hpricot

Hey.. I just installed hpricot but it acts strange..
I tried an example from
http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/wiki/HpricotBasics but it
didn't work.. It just gave me "test.rb:1: parse error, unexpected
tIDENTIFIER, expecting $"...

After that i tried ruby -ropen-uri -e
'eval(open("http://balloon.hobix.com/hpricot").read)' and it launched
the script on that page without any problems..
I tried to copy that script and pasted it into my texteditor to just
try to launch it but it gave me the :

"test.rb:1: parse error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting $
puts "You may use XPath (//span[@class='entryPermalink']) or CSS
selectors (spanendlements.each { |ele| pp ele } }t? [h/I]? "ts found."

What does that mean? And why doesn't it work? I followed the steps from
:
http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger

Maybe you better show us your actual code. There are several examples on that page.

Look at this:

require 'rubygems'
require 'hpricot'
require 'open-uri'
doc = Hpricot(open("http://qwantz.com/"\))
(doc/"p/a/img").each do |img|
   puts img.attributes['class']
end

It works although it doesn't actually find and image with a 'class' attribute.

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On Aug 18, 2006, at 7:00 AM, fabsy wrote:

Hey.. I just installed hpricot but it acts strange..
I tried an example from
http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/wiki/HpricotBasics but it
didn't work.. It just gave me "test.rb:1: parse error, unexpected
tIDENTIFIER, expecting $"...

--
Seven Deadly Sins? I thought it was a to-do list!

Chris Gehlker skrev:

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On Aug 18, 2006, at 7:00 AM, fabsy wrote:

> Hey.. I just installed hpricot but it acts strange..
> I tried an example from
> http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/wiki/HpricotBasics but it
> didn't work.. It just gave me "test.rb:1: parse error, unexpected
> tIDENTIFIER, expecting $"...

Maybe you better show us your actual code. There are several examples
on that page.

Look at this:

require 'rubygems'
require 'hpricot'
require 'open-uri'
doc = Hpricot(open("http://qwantz.com/"\))
(doc/"p/a/img").each do |img|
   puts img.attributes['class']
end

It works although it doesn't actually find and image with a 'class'
attribute.

--
Seven Deadly Sins? I thought it was a to-do list!

Im getting the same error with the code you pasted..

Weird,

I'm running ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-18) [powerpc-darwin8.7.0] with Hpricot 0.4.43 and I just cut and pasted the above code. It still works. I'm stumped.

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On Aug 18, 2006, at 8:00 AM, fabsy wrote:

Chris Gehlker skrev:

On Aug 18, 2006, at 7:00 AM, fabsy wrote:

Hey.. I just installed hpricot but it acts strange..
I tried an example from
http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/wiki/HpricotBasics but it
didn't work.. It just gave me "test.rb:1: parse error, unexpected
tIDENTIFIER, expecting $"...

Maybe you better show us your actual code. There are several examples
on that page.

Look at this:

require 'rubygems'
require 'hpricot'
require 'open-uri'
doc = Hpricot(open("http://qwantz.com/"\))
(doc/"p/a/img").each do |img|
   puts img.attributes['class']
end

It works although it doesn't actually find and image with a 'class'
attribute.

--
Seven Deadly Sins? I thought it was a to-do list!

Im getting the same error with the code you pasted..

---
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
-Samuel Butler, writer (1835-1902)

Chris Gehlker skrev:

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On Aug 18, 2006, at 8:00 AM, fabsy wrote:

>
> Chris Gehlker skrev:
>
>> On Aug 18, 2006, at 7:00 AM, fabsy wrote:
>>
>>> Hey.. I just installed hpricot but it acts strange..
>>> I tried an example from
>>> http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/wiki/HpricotBasics but it
>>> didn't work.. It just gave me "test.rb:1: parse error, unexpected
>>> tIDENTIFIER, expecting $"...
>>
>> Maybe you better show us your actual code. There are several examples
>> on that page.
>>
>> Look at this:
>>
>> require 'rubygems'
>> require 'hpricot'
>> require 'open-uri'
>> doc = Hpricot(open("http://qwantz.com/"\))
>> (doc/"p/a/img").each do |img|
>> puts img.attributes['class']
>> end
>>
>> It works although it doesn't actually find and image with a 'class'
>> attribute.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Seven Deadly Sins? I thought it was a to-do list!
>
> Im getting the same error with the code you pasted..

Weird,

I'm running ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-18) [powerpc-darwin8.7.0] with
Hpricot 0.4.43 and I just cut and pasted the above code. It still
works. I'm stumped.

---
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to
those who do not wish to hear it.
-Samuel Butler, writer (1835-1902)

I'ts really strange.. It works in irb but not when im pasting in in a
.rb file..
Maby I should re-install it?

Maybe. It seems to me that if it weren't installed correctly it wouldn't work in irb either but I can't think of anything better to try.

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On Aug 18, 2006, at 10:55 AM, fabsy wrote:

I'ts really strange.. It works in irb but not when im pasting in in a
.rb file..
Maby I should re-install it?

--
Vegetarians eat Vegetables, Humanitarians frighten me

Chris Gehlker skrev:

> I'ts really strange.. It works in irb but not when im pasting in in a
> .rb file..
> Maby I should re-install it?

Maybe. It seems to me that if it weren't installed correctly it
wouldn't work in irb either but I can't think of anything better to try.
--
Vegetarians eat Vegetables, Humanitarians frighten me

Yeah.. re-installed it but i still get the same error..

I just pasted:

require 'rubygems'
require 'hpricot'
require 'open-uri'

doc = Hpricot(open("http://qwantz.com/"\))
(doc/"p/a/img").each do |img|
   puts img.attributes['class']
end

into a file and tried to run it.. It gave me the
"hej.rb:1: parse error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting $
require 'open-uri'"

But it still works when i paste it directly into irb..

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On Aug 18, 2006, at 10:55 AM, fabsy wrote:

fabsy wrote:

Chris Gehlker skrev:

I'ts really strange.. It works in irb but not when im pasting in in a
.rb file..
Maby I should re-install it?
      

Maybe. It seems to me that if it weren't installed correctly it
wouldn't work in irb either but I can't think of anything better to try.
--
Vegetarians eat Vegetables, Humanitarians frighten me
    
Yeah.. re-installed it but i still get the same error..

I just pasted:

require 'rubygems'
require 'hpricot'
require 'open-uri'

doc = Hpricot(open("http://qwantz.com/"\))
(doc/"p/a/img").each do |img|
   puts img.attributes['class']
end

into a file and tried to run it.. It gave me the
"hej.rb:1: parse error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting $
require 'open-uri'"

But it still works when i paste it directly into irb..
  

Why is it saying parse error on line 1 if "require 'open-uri'" is on line 3 of your example?
How are you running the file?

ruby hej.rb

or

./hej.rb

?

Also, that's a great comic.

-Justin

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On Aug 18, 2006, at 10:55 AM, fabsy wrote:

fabsy wrote:

I just pasted:

require 'rubygems'
require 'hpricot'
require 'open-uri'

doc = Hpricot(open("http://qwantz.com/"\))
(doc/"p/a/img").each do |img|
   puts img.attributes['class']
end

into a file and tried to run it.. It gave me the
"hej.rb:1: parse error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting $
require 'open-uri'"

Smells like you've got a line-endings problem.

I think maybe Justin is on to something here. Could your editor be messing up the end-of-lines? I'm using TextMate and not having any problems.

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On Aug 18, 2006, at 11:28 AM, Justin Collins wrote:

Why is it saying parse error on line 1 if "require 'open-uri'" is on line 3 of your example?
How are you running the file?

--
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
-Frank William Leahy, football coach (1908-1973)

phrogz@gmail.com skrev:

fabsy wrote:
> I just pasted:
>
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'hpricot'
> require 'open-uri'
>
> doc = Hpricot(open("http://qwantz.com/"\))
> (doc/"p/a/img").each do |img|
> puts img.attributes['class']
> end
>
> into a file and tried to run it.. It gave me the
> "hej.rb:1: parse error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting $
> require 'open-uri'"

Smells like you've got a line-endings problem.

Aah!
I got a new texteditor and it works like a charm!
Thank you guys..