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directory_web_service.rb
require 'mechanize'
require 'nokogiri'
require 'sinatra'
get '/:psuid' do
find_name params[:psuid]
end
def find_name(psuid)
result = ''
a = Mechanize.new
a.get('http://psu.edu/ph') do |page|
search_result = page.form_with(:name => 'search') do |search|
search.uid = psuid
end.submit
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(search_result.content)
word = doc.css('html body form table tr td b')[0].text
name = word[21,word.length]
new_word = ""
name.split(" ").each do |n|
n.downcase!.capitalize!
new_word << n+" "
end
result = new_word
end
result
end
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