by the way require 'hpricot' doc = Hpricot("<b>hello <i>world</i></b>") p doc.search("").inner_text won't work... i am not sure if it is the Win installer of Ruby... but it is the most recent Win installer. it says scraper2.rb:6: undefined method `inner_text' for #<Hpricot::Elements:0x348dbc4> (NoMethodError) and doc.to_plain_text() won't work either... -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.