xkcd 0.0.7 → 0.0.8

data/bin/xkcd

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env ruby
 require 'xkcd'
-puts XKCD.get
-puts XKCD.
+puts XKCD.img
+

data/lib/xkcd.rb

@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env ruby
-require 'nokogiri'
+#!/usr/bin/evn ruby
+require 'net/http'
 require 'open-uri'
-require 'json'
-
 # The main XKCD driver
 class XKCD
     # Get img/comic URL from xkcd
@@ -14,27 +12,21 @@ class XKCD
     #   >> XKCD.comic
     #   => "http://xkcd.com/891/"
 
-    def self.comic
-        open('http://dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic/').base_uri.to_s
+    def self.comic()
+       # This method gets random comic links from xkcd, the uri is the redirected location found in the resp headers
+       uri = URI.parse 'http://dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic/'
+       req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
+       http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host)
+       res = http.start { |server|
+       server.request(req)
+       }
+       res["location"]
     end
     
-    class << XKCD
-        alias_method :get, :comic
-    end
-
-=begin
-    def self.img
-        img = Nokogiri::HTML(open('http://dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic/')).css('#comic img')[0]
-        img_url = img.attributes["src"].value
-        img_title = img.attributes["title"].value
-        "#{img_title} : #{img_url}"
-    end
-=end
     def self.img
-        max = JSON.parse(open('http://xkcd.com/info.0.json').read)["num"]
-        comic_num = Random.rand(max) 
-        comic_num = 1 if comic_num == 404 # Avoid 404th comic ;)
-        comic = JSON.parse(open("http://xkcd.com/#{random_comic}/info.0.json").read)
-        "#{comic['alt']} : #{comic['img']}"    
+        url = 'http://dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic/'
+        html = open(url).read()
+        imgs = URI.extract(html).select{ |l| l[/comics\//]} 
+        imgs.first       
     end
 end

metadata

@@ -1,63 +1,68 @@
---- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification
+--- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification 
 name: xkcd
-version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version
-  version: 0.0.7
+version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
+  hash: 15
   prerelease: 
+  segments: 
+  - 0
+  - 0
+  - 8
+  version: 0.0.8
 platform: ruby
-authors:
+authors: 
 - Hemanth.HM
 autorequire: 
 bindir: bin
 cert_chain: []
-date: 2012-05-20 00:00:00.000000000Z
-dependencies:
-- !ruby/object:Gem::Dependency
-  name: nokogiri
-  requirement: &73470780 !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
-    none: false
-    requirements:
-    - - ~>
-      - !ruby/object:Gem::Version
-        version: 1.5.2
-    - - ! '>='
-      - !ruby/object:Gem::Version
-        version: 1.5.0
-  type: :runtime
-  prerelease: false
-  version_requirements: *73470780
+
+date: 2012-05-20 00:00:00 Z
+dependencies: []
+
 description: A simple gem to get random img/comic url from xkcd
 email: hemanth.hm@gmail.com
-executables: []
+executables: 
+- xkcd
 extensions: []
+
 extra_rdoc_files: []
-files:
+
+files: 
 - Rakefile
 - lib/xkcd.rb
 - bin/xkcd
 - test/test_karam.rb
 homepage: http://rubygems.org/gems/xkcd
 licenses: []
+
 post_install_message: 
 rdoc_options: []
-require_paths:
+
+require_paths: 
 - lib
-required_ruby_version: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
+required_ruby_version: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement 
   none: false
-  requirements:
-  - - ! '>='
-    - !ruby/object:Gem::Version
-      version: '0'
-required_rubygems_version: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
+  requirements: 
+  - - ">="
+    - !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
+      hash: 3
+      segments: 
+      - 0
+      version: "0"
+required_rubygems_version: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement 
   none: false
-  requirements:
-  - - ! '>='
-    - !ruby/object:Gem::Version
-      version: '0'
+  requirements: 
+  - - ">="
+    - !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
+      hash: 3
+      segments: 
+      - 0
+      version: "0"
 requirements: []
+
 rubyforge_project: 
-rubygems_version: 1.8.10
+rubygems_version: 1.8.24
 signing_key: 
 specification_version: 3
 summary: XCKD random img urls!
-test_files:
+test_files: 
 - test/test_karam.rb