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More Ruby libs: I’ve just released the first version of HtmlClipping. HtmlClipping reads an HTML page that has a link pointing to a particular URI. It removes most HTML markup, bolds the link text, and trims the resulting text to a fixed number of characters. I developed it to help me track referers to my website, though I suppose it might have other uses.

For example, the following script gets the HTML at http://rubyforge.org/credits/, and forms an excerpt around the link to http://www.rubycentral.org/pledge/.

require 'htmlclipping'
require 'net/http'
contents = ''
Net::HTTP.start( 'rubyforge.org' ) do |http|
 response = http.get '/credits/'
 contents = response.body
end
clipping = HtmlClipping.new(
 contents, 'http://www.rubycentral.org/pledge/', 500
)
puts clipping.to_s
=> "… RubyForge takes time, effort, and money. Many thanks to the
 folks listed below who are making it possible! 
 If RubyForge has
 been helpful to you, and you want to give something back to the Ruby
 community, please consider supporting RubyCentral.
 Thanks! 
 InfoEther, Inc purchased the RubyForge hardware and
 provides system administration support. 
 Several folks provide
 file mirrors to help share the bandwidth load: 
 Evan Webb 

 Dennis Oelkers 
 Austin …"