retrieving page title in rails

Question

Curious as to how to approach this same problem using ruby / rails - Fastest way to retrieve a <title> in PHP

Is there a plugin or gem that anyone recommends? cheers!

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 10 '09 at 14:39

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In the same spirit as the PHP tread, lets do this with no special gems:

require 'open-uri'
open('http://www.google.com').read.match(/<title>(.*?)<\/title>/)[1]

..and out comes Google

answered Sep 10 '09 at 14:39

+1 for a solution that works. This wouldn't be the fastest though, `Nokogiri` and `Hpricot` (sigh!) are a lot faster. – Swanand Sep 10 '09 at 15:45

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 10 '09 at 14:16

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This would probably be pretty easy with Nokogiri.

answered Sep 10 '09 at 14:16

Andy Gaskell

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