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Asked: 2026-05-10T14:36:57+00:00

I have never worked with web services and rails, and obviously this is something

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I have never worked with web services and rails, and obviously this is something I need to learn. I have chosen to use hpricot because it looks great. Anyway, _why’s been nice enough to provide the following example on the hpricot website:

 #!ruby  require 'hpricot'  require 'open-uri'  # load the RedHanded home page  doc = Hpricot(open('http://redhanded.hobix.com/index.html'))  # change the CSS class on links  (doc/'span.entryPermalink').set('class', 'newLinks')  # remove the sidebar  (doc/'#sidebar').remove  # print the altered HTML  puts doc

Which looks simple, elegant, and easy peasey. Works great in Ruby, but my question is: How do I break this up in rails?

I experimented with adding this all to a single controller, but couldn’t think of the best way to call it in a view.

So if you were parsing an XML file from a web API and printing it in nice clean HTML with Hpricot, how would you break up the activity over the models, views, and controllers, and what would you put where?

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  1. Model, model, model, model, model. Skinny controllers, simple views.

    The RedHandedHomePage model does the parsing on initialization, then call ‘def render’ in the controller, set output to an instance variable, and print that in a view.

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