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Wildgoose

The output iterators *might* be broken?

Reported by Wildgoose | December 15th, 2008 @ 10:40 AM

Hi, I built a quick scrapper which returned me some data where the .to_hash looks like an array of hashes, with each hash being just a single named value. In other words I have the XML being an array of s and each of these contains a single element

I was able to use the output of scrubyt by taking the .to_hash and iterating over it. However, it appeared that I should also be able to do something like:

scrubyt_instance.each {|i| puts i}

However, this lead to nothing but empty lists and hashes no matter what I tried. No could I see how to get statistics out of this instance (it's clearly a class level function and doesn't even apply to an instance?)

The barrier to debugging this further is that I don't understand how the output iterators are really supposed to work, nor how the iterators are being implemented. Can you give some information on the entry point here and some examples of how it's supposed to work?

I do think it would be quite helpful if all the examples could be turned into tests so that they both document the internet and check that it's all working. Happy to assist with that, but could you help get it started and indicate whether you will receive patches..?

Thanks again for scrubyt!

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