HTML Tidy package for Ruby

ruby-talk
1

My experiments with Ruby's DL module have led me to create
a Ruby wrapper/interface for HTML Tidy (http://tidy.sf.net).
I'm hoping to get some feedback on it since I'm new to Ruby/DL
and am not able to test on *nix systems at the moment.

Usage:

  require 'tidy'
  html = '<html><title>title</title>Body</html>'
  xml = Tidy.open(:show_warnings=>true) do |tidy|
    tidy.options.output_xml = true
    puts tidy.options.show_warnings
    xml = tidy.clean(html)
    puts tidy.errors
    puts tidy.diagnostics
    xml
  end
  puts xml

Package:

  http://www.newclear.ca/ruby/tidy/
  http://www.newclear.ca/ruby/tidy/apidoc/

Requires a compiled tidy library named "tidylib.so" in your require path.
Libraries can be found on http://tidy.sf.net
Tests done using tidy-dll-fast (http://dev.int64.org/tidy.html) on Win2kPro

2

I've uploaded B2. The B1 version hardcoded the library name to "tidylib.so".
B2 introduces a load() function which specifies the path to the library:

require 'tidy'
Tidy.load('path/to/tidylib.so')

This avoids the hard coding of the name. Ideally I'll then be adding some
auto-detection which will search the RUBYLIB/RUBYPATH/PATH directories for
files named (tidy|tidylib|libtidy).(dll|so) etc. so that in the end no one
will ever have call this function in their scripts.

3

Note that the example given in the original post is no longer valid due to
recent changes. Please consult http://www.newclear.ca/ruby/tidy/apidoc/ for
the most recent examples and http://www.newclear.ca/ruby/tidy/ for the most
recent download.

- Kevin