Rails 3.0 Parsing XML and Inserting into Database

Question

I\'m new to Rails, and am trying to hook up my application to a third-party API (it does\'t have a gem or plugin for Rails).

Ideally, what I want to be able to do is par

Answer 1

When using nokogiri you can specify css or xpath selectors, like:

doc = Nokogiri::XML(xml_string)
events = doc.search('//event')
events.each do |event|
  puts event.at('short_description')
end

Also, check out nokogiri intro tutorials.