retrieving page title in rails

Question

Curious as to how to approach this same problem using ruby / rails - Fastest way to retrieve a <title> in PHP

Is there a plugin or gem that anyone recommends? cheers!

Answer 1

In the same spirit as the PHP tread, lets do this with no special gems:

require 'open-uri'
open('http://www.google.com').read.match(/<title>(.*?)<\/title>/)[1]

..and out comes Google

Answer 2

This would probably be pretty easy with Nokogiri.