What You’re Doing Is Rather Desperate

So, you’d like to submit a URL to Open Laboratory 2008, you want to know if it’s already in Bora’s list and your machine runs Ruby? I thought so!

Save the following code as “bora.rb”, make it executable and run:

#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'hpricot'
require 'open-uri'

def check_url(url)
  d = Hpricot(open("http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/11/the_open_laboratory_2008_only.php"))
  d.search('a[@href]').each {|a|
    if url == a['href']
      return "Already submitted:  #{a.inner_text}"
    end
  }
  return "No exact match found"
end

puts check_url(ARGV[0])

It will only match identical URLs and is missing all kinds of checks and tests.