ruby code to search and get a string from a html content

Question

Am new to ruby. am trying to get the webpage contents and search and return a string from that response following code retunrs the webpage as html

require 'rubygems'
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'


AppArgs = Array.new

def get()
content = Net::HTTP.get('integration.twosmiles.com', '/status')
puts content
end

get()

html content

<!-- PAGE CONTENT -->
<div class="container-fluid page-content">
  <div class="row-fluid">
    <h1>Status</h1>
<p>The rails app is up.  Nothing to see here, move on.</p>
<br>
<p>uptime:</p>
 22:09:18 up 66 days, 22:37,  0 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05
<br>

<br><br>
<p>other</p>
# On branch deploy
<br>
commit bc1407b29697bab36bc2f5e35aa197228181e225
<br>

  </div>
</div>
<!-- END PAGE CONTENT -->

Above is the part of the web page content . From this content i want to get the commit bc1407b29697bab36bc2f5e35aa197228181e225 and ony want to return the key value bc1407b29697bab36bc2f5e35aa197228181e225.how it is possbile using ruby code

Try with nokigiri parsing gem.

Sanket
– Sanket

2014-06-17 05:29:53 +00:00
Commented Jun 17, 2014 at 5:29 — Sanket
– Sanket, Commented Jun 17, 2014 at 5:29

Arie Xiao · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-18 02:06:25Z

1

key = get()[/commit\s+([a-f0-9]{10,})/i, 1]
puts key

Regex explanation here.

edited Jun 18, 2014 at 2:06

answered Jun 17, 2014 at 5:46

Arie Xiao

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Sush Over a year ago

can u please describe the meaning of this regular experssion?

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