Paul Rogers
3/3/2008 11:03:00 PM
On Mar 3, 9:56 am, mirth <mirth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi guys,
>
> I'm using watir to get the result from a html table into an array like
>
> $reportResult=frame.table(:id, "ReportTable").to_a.flatten
>
> But it takes forever to run if that table's huge. For example, if that
> table has 533,863 cells so it will be 533,863 objects in that
> $reportResult array. It will take over 20 minutes to run that line of
> code. Sometimes, it will just give up and give exception.
>
> So my question is: Is there any better way to get result from the html
> table that could run faster? Any suggestion is high appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> YY
you could try hpricot - either by using net/http or by dumping the hml
from IE to it
Paul