# New to ruby.. need a code **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [April 1, 2006, 1:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-to-ruby-need-a-code/93394 "2006-04-01T13:06:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 1:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-to-ruby-need-a-code/93394/1 "2006-04-01T13:06:13Z")
Hi all I am new to Ruby. Found it as an intersting language. Can anyone help me with a simple code in Ruby to check for all the dead and live links in a website ? Thanks Rati ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-to-ruby-need-a-code/93394/2 "2006-04-01T16:40:17Z")
On 4/1/06, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > A wonderful language, a sort of rough request here is some (very) simple code to get you started, using some great ruby libraries, including rubyful soup ([Rubyful Soup: "The brush has got entangled in it!"](http://www.crummy.com/software/RubyfulSoup/)), which is available as a gem. As written it only checks one page, you would need to make it “walk” the links to recursively check a whole site. Hope it helps pth require ‘open-uri’ require ‘uri’ require ‘rubyful\_soup’ url = ‘[http://www.yahoo.com/](http://www.yahoo.com/)’ uri = URI.parse(url) html = open(uri).read soup = BeautifulSoup.new(html) #Search the soup links = soup.find\_all(‘a’).map { |a| a[‘href’] } # Remove javascript links.delete\_if { |href| href =~ /javascript/ } links.each do |l| # resolve relative paths (there is probably a better way) link = URI.parse(l) link.scheme = ‘http’ unless link.scheme link.host = uri.host unless link.host link.path = uri.path + link.path unless link.path[0] == ?/ link = URI.parse(link.to\_s) # check the link begin open(link).read # if we made it here the link is probably good rescue Exception =\> e puts “#{link.to\_s}: #{e.to\_s}” end end ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-to-ruby-need-a-code/93394/3 "2006-04-01T18:21:55Z")
Thank you. Will take care in future to not post a rough request 🙂 Thanks again for this extended help. ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 10:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-to-ruby-need-a-code/93394/4 "2006-04-01T22:08:50Z")
DÅ?a Sobota 01 Apríl 2006 16:39 Patrick H. napísal: > A wonderful language, a sort of rough request here is some (very) > require ‘uri’ > > # Remove javascript > > # check the link > > begin > open(link).read > # if we made it here the link is probably good > rescue Exception =\> e > puts “#{link.to\_s}: #{e.to\_s}” > end > end Yay for intuitive and descriptive class and library names, eh? David V. ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 3:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-to-ruby-need-a-code/93394/5 "2006-04-02T03:57:37Z")
Hi, > links.each do |l| > > # resolve relative paths (there is probably a better way) Yes there is, see below 🙂 > link = URI.parse(l) > link.scheme = ‘http’ unless link.scheme > link.host = uri.host unless link.host > link.path = uri.path + link.path unless link.path[0] == ?/ > link = URI.parse(link.to\_s) > link = uri.merge(l) Robin ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 2:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-to-ruby-need-a-code/93394/6 "2006-04-02T02:41:46Z")
On 4/1/06, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Thank you. Will take care in future to not post a rough request 🙂 > > Thanks again for this extended help. You are very welcome. And you are always welcome to request help. So I don’t come off sounding too harsh, let me explain. This is a friendly community, generally populated by programmers and people striving to become programmers, so when asking for assistance in this manner, you will often receive more assistance when you show that you have spent a little time attempting to do this yourself, or asking for guidance on how to get started. As for the name rubyful\_soup there are other better named libraries, but this is based upon a Python library (same author) called Beautiful Soup – its claim to fame is that it will handle invalid markup, that will give most other parsers fits (so it is useful in the real world when dealing with other peoples “html”). I knew the library because I had read about it here. Good luck again pth ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 5:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-to-ruby-need-a-code/93394/7 "2006-04-02T05:02:21Z")
On 4/1/06, Robin S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > link = URI.parse(link.to\_s) > > link = uri.merge(l) > > Robin Thanks I knew there had to be :-), I don’t use URI much. pth