Retrieve contents of URL as string

Question

For tedious reasons to do with Hpricot, I need to write a function that is passed a URL, and returns the whole contents of the page as a single string.

I\'m close.

Answer 1

To make code a little clearer, the OpenURI open method will return the value returned by the block, so you can assign open's return value to your variable. For example:

xml_text = open(url) { |io| io.read }