ritdiningparser.rb

require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'


def next_node_with(current, attribute, cond)
  while current && current.send(attribute) != cond
    current = current.next
  end 
  current
end



doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open('http://www.rit.edu/fa/diningservices/content/hours-operation'))
doc.css('h3 a').each do |node|
  if node.content == "" && node['id'] == node['name']
    puts node
    table =  next_node_with(node.parent, :name, "table")
    rows =  table.search('tr')[1..-1]
    details = rows.collect do |row|
      row.search('td//text()').collect{|text|  text.to_s.strip}
    end
    puts details
  end
end