topmovies.rb

# topmovies.rb - Scrape top grossing movies and their ratings from rotten tomatoes
require 'rubygems'
require 'hpricot'
require 'open-uri'

class RottenTomatoes
  def initialize
    @url = "http://www.rottentomatoes.com"
    @hp  = Hpricot(open(@url))
  end

  def top_five_movies
    titles = (@hp/"table//td.boxofficeTbl_movieCol/a").collect{|title|
      title.inner_text.strip
    }
    grosses  = (@hp/"table//td.boxofficeTbl_grossCol/a").collect{|gross|
      gross.inner_text.strip
    }
    ratings = (@hp/"table//td.boxofficeTbl_tomatometerCol/a/span/span.label").collect{|rating|
      rating.inner_text.strip
    }

    result = []
    i = 0;
    titles.each do |title|
      result[i] = {}
      result[i]['title'] = title
      i += 1
    end

    i = 0
    grosses.each do |gross|
      result[i]['gross'] = gross
      i += 1
    end

    i = 0
    ratings.each do |rating|
      result[i]['rating'] = rating
      i += 1
    end
    result
  end
end

rt = RottenTomatoes.new
top = rt.top_five_movies

printf("%-6s | %-25s | %-5s\n", "Rating", "Title", "Gross");
44.times { print "-" }
print "\n"

top.each do |movie|
  printf("%-6s | %-25s | %-5s\n", movie['rating'], movie['title'], movie['gross'])
end