On Feb 24, 2010, at 21:15 , roger99999 wrote: > I'm a Ruby newbie trying to use scrubyt to extract text from a site. I > have mechanize 1.0.0 installed and keep getting the following > deprecation notice. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to switch the WWW > to mechanize, as it requests. I'm not actually calling mechanize > anywhere in the code either. Many thanks in advance. First off, stop using scrubyt and use mechanize directly. That takes = care of the biggest issue, you're using something that provides little = value to begin with. Mechanize is easy. Try it out.