Martin Boese wrote:
> It's very easy, just do:
>
> > require 'net/http'
> > website = Net::HTTP.get 'www.yahoo.com', '/'
>
> Now you have the yahoo.com startpage sourcode in website. To see it:
>
> > puts website
>
> The Net::HTTP documentation has more examples:
>
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/index.html
>
>
> Martin

Great example, but because I'm lazy, I prefer open-uri:

> require 'open-uri'
> puts open('http://www.yahoo.com').read

Probably better to get familiar with Net::HTTP, but when that gets
old... :-)