simple_scrape.rb

# Re: http://twitter.com/danielmorrison/status/1149336565

require 'rubygems'
require 'httparty'
require 'hpricot'

url = 'http://rubyonrails.org'
document = Hpricot.parse(HTTParty.get(url))

scrape = {
  :title => 'head title',
  :body => 'body'
}

values = {}
scrape.each do |name, selector|
  text = (document / selector).inner_text.gsub(/\s+/, ' ')
  values[name] = 
    if text.length > 300 
      text[0..300] + '...'
    else
      text
    end
end

puts values.inspect