What is the best way to parse a web page in Ruby?

Question

I have been looking at XML and HTML libraries on rubyforge for a simple way to pull data out of a web page. For example if I want to parse a user page on stackoverflow how

Answer 1

I always really like what Ilya Grigorik writes, and he wrote up a nice post about using hpricot.

I also read this post a while back and it looks like it would be useful for you.

Haven't done either myself, so YMMV but these seem pretty useful.