Access Bash.org quotes via ruby

bashorg.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby -wKU

require "nokogiri"
require "open-uri"

class BashOrg
  def self.random_quote
    get_quote("random")
  end

  def self.quote_by_id(id)
    get_quote(id.to_s)
  end

  def self.top5
    get_top_voted_quotes(5)
  end

  def self.top10
    get_top_voted_quotes(10)
  end

  private

    def self.get_quote(quote)
      results = bash_request(quote)
      results.first.text
    end

    def self.get_top_voted_quotes(count)
      results = bash_request("top")
      results[0..count]
    end

    def self.bash_request(request)
      result = Nokogiri::HTML(open("http://www.bash.org/?#{request}"))
      result.xpath('//p[@class = "qt"]')
    end
end

puts BashOrg.random_quote
puts "-----"
puts BashOrg.quote_by_id(1863)
puts "-----"
BashOrg.top10.each {|q| puts "-----\n" + q }