Question

I’m trying to return a net http response from a link to remote call; however, I am unsure how to access information returned in the body.

This is what I have so far:

def get_info
uri = URI.parse("somesite")
response = Net::HTTP.get_response(uri)
render :json => {:name => response.body}
end

$(document).ready(function(){
$('#get_info').bind("ajax:success", function(event, data, status, xhr) {
    alert(data.name);
});
});

This just dumps the xml returned to the pop up.

Answer 1

If you want to do any kind of fancy stuff with the response I recommend using nokogiri:

require 'nokogiri'
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(response.body)

Then you can get e.g. the title with just:

title = doc.at_css('title').text
#=> "Title of the page"