Cheating at pokemon battles.

pokemon_hax.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'httparty'
require 'nokogiri'

def info_page_html_for(pokemon)
  reponse = HTTParty.get "http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/#{pokemon}_(Pok%C3%A9mon)".force_encoding('UTF-8')
end

def weakness_table_for(pokemon)
  table = info_page_html_for(pokemon)
  table = table.split('Under normal battle conditions in Generation V').last

  table = table.split('Weak to').last
  table = table.split('Immune').first

  table = table.split('</tbody>').first

  Nokogiri::HTML.parse(table).xpath("//span[@style='display:inline-block;']").map(&:text).map { |string| string.split[0] }
end

cached = {}

while true do
  puts 'Which Pokémon are you fighting?'

  pokemon = gets.chomp.capitalize

  puts "\n\nYou should use one of the following:\n #{cached[pokemon] ||= weakness_table_for pokemon}\n\n"
end