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stock_ticker.rb
require 'httparty'
require 'nokogiri'
puts "Enter a stock ticker you would like to"
stock = gets.chomp.downcase
response = HTTParty.get("http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=#{stock}")
dom = Nokogiri::HTML(response.body)
se = dom.xpath("//span[@id='yfs_l84_#{stock}']").first
price = se.content
puts "The stock you entered just traded at $#{price}"
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