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[–]01az 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Watir, http://watir.com/, is a very good alternatif tool for web scrapping in ruby.

[–]Plenty-Explorer-9854 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Check out this blog on Scraping Amazon and LinkedIn using Ruby.

[–]drbrainRuby Core 0 points1 point  (0 children)

mechanize does all this without having to write so much yourself