Process The Porter's List

gistfile1.rb

require "nokogiri"
require "open-uri"
require "yaml"

#  Let's check out The Porter's selection
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open('http://www.theporterbeerbar.com/drink/beer/'))
puts "Loaded the website OK"

#  Make an array to hold all of the data
data = Array.new

#  Fill the array with the data from each row
doc.css('tr').each { |row| data << row.content.delete("\t").split(/\n/) }

#  Remove the heading row
data.shift

#  Save the data
out = File.new("beer_menu.yml", "w")
out.write(data.to_yaml)

#  Give the user a notice
puts "Found #{data.count} listings and wrote the array to 'beer_menu.yml'"