Re: [Rails] problem scraping using nokogiri - getting wrong characters

Hi! I opened the html source from the snowreport.php site and I noted that the strange symbols that you mentioned are htmlencoded characters. The symbol is ° I had a similar problem on last Monday, but I couldn't complete solve it. Try the lib: http://htmlentities.rubyforge.org/ or use a regula

[Rails] problem scraping using nokogiri - getting wrong characters

Hi all, I am scraping a table off of another site and inserting it onto my site. you can see an example on the initial page at: http://mthosts.heroku.com. I'm referring to the green box with the snowbird weather and snowfall information. this box has been scraped off of the snowbird site at: h