Nokogiri and Mechanize Introduction

list.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'open-uri'
require 'mechanize'
require 'nokogiri'

class Mechanize::Form
  def postback target, argument
    self['__EVENTTARGET'], self['__EVENTARGUMENT'] = target, argument
    submit
  end
end

agent = Mechanize.new
page = agent.get 'https://secure.pascocountyfl.net/bccpapa/Opal/SinkHoleReport.aspx'


form = page.form_with(:action => 'SinkHoleReport.aspx')
form.field_with(:name => "ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder2$txtFromDate").value = '04/25/20014'
form.field_with(:name => "ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder2$txtTodate").value = '07/25/2014'
form.field_with(:name => "ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder2$ddlStatus").value = "3"
form.radiobutton_with(:name => "ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder2$Sink").value = "1"
form.radiobutton_with(:name => "ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder2$Type").checked = "rdoBusiness"
form.radiobutton_with(:name => "ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder2$SearchType").checked = "rdoStarts"

page = form.submit(form.button_with(:value=>'Search'))

document = Nokogiri::HTML(page.content)
document.css("#ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder2_gvwBuildingPermits tr")[1..-2].each do |tr|
   puts tr.css('td').map{ |td|  
    td.text.gsub(/[$,](?=\d)/, '').gsub(/\302\240|\s/, ' ').strip
   }.join(" | ")
end   
      
#=> 828424 | ADVANCED PIER TECHNOLOGY, LLC | 1626140160000000090 | COMPLETE | GRND SETTLE REPAI | 8406 | BASALISK CT | NEW PORT                                                                    RICHEY | 34 | 06-05-2014