Cast a HN Poll to a Ruby Hash

gistfile1.rb

%w{rubygems hpricot open-uri}.each{|r|require r}

class Array
	def to_int_hash
		h={};each_with_index{|e,i| h[e]=self[i+1].gsub(/a-z/,'').to_i if i.even?};h
	end
end

def poll_to_hash(url)

	doc=Hpricot(open(url))
	items=[]
	(doc/'/html/body/center/table/tr[3]/td/table[1]/tr[6]/td[2]/table/tr').each{|x|items<<"#{x.inner_text}" unless x.inner_text==''};nil
	items.to_int_hash

end

p poll_to_hash('http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3788271')

p poll_to_hash('http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3786926')