gistfile1.rb

# Ask Nokogiri to find the row containing the header names
headers = table.search('thead > tr')

# Create a hash that maps the column name to the column index, so I can access subsequent
# rows' data by name

header_map = headers.search('th')
                    .map(&:text)
                    .each_with_index
                    .with_object({}) {|(name, index), hash| hash[name] = index}