gistfile1.rb

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'cgi'
require 'mechanize'

def check_pnr(pnr1,pnr2)
  agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
  page = agent.get 'http://www.indianrail.gov.in/pnr_stat.html'
  form = page.forms[0]
  form.lccp_pnrno1 = pnr1
  form.lccp_pnrno2 = pnr2
  page = agent.submit(form)
  tds = page.search("//table")[4].search("//tr")[2].search("//td")
  puts "Train:" + tds[2].innerHTML + "  Date:" + tds[3].innerHTML + "  From:" + tds[4].innerHTML + "  To:" + tds[5].innerHTML + "\n"
  trs  = page.search("//table[@id='center_table']").search("//tr")
  (3..trs.size-3).each do |index|
    tr = trs[index]
    tds = tr.search("//td")
    puts "passenger #{index -2}\t" + clean(tds[1].innerHTML) + "\t" + clean(tds[2].innerHTML) + "\n"
  end
  puts "\n\n"
end

def clean(chunk)
  chunk.gsub("<strong>","").gsub("</strong>","")
end

# Enter the PNRs to check, in this array
pnrs = ["4301157213","4101137451"]
pnrs.each do |pnr|
  check_pnr(pnr[0..2],pnr[3..-1])
end