undefined method `name' for "ISO-8859-1":String

[Caleb Sayre]

I keep getting this error when trying to use Nokogiri.  Here is what I am doing:

agent = Mechanize.new
html = agent.get('http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=173')
Nokogiri::HTML(html)

NoMethodError: undefined method `name' for "ISO-8859-1":String

from /Users/calebsayre/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/nokogiri-1.6.8/lib/nokogiri/html/document.rb:169:in `parse'

from /Users/calebsayre/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/nokogiri-1.6.8/lib/nokogiri/html.rb:15:in `HTML'

from (irb):3

from /Users/calebsayre/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/railties-5.0.0/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:65:in `start'

from /Users/calebsayre/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/railties-5.0.0/lib/rails/commands/console_helper.rb:9:in `start'

from /Users/calebsayre/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/railties-5.0.0/lib/rails/commands/commands_tasks.rb:78:in `console'

from /Users/calebsayre/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/railties-5.0.0/lib/rails/commands/commands_tasks.rb:49:in `run_command!'

from /Users/calebsayre/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/railties-5.0.0/lib/rails/commands.rb:18:in `<top (required)>'

from /Users/calebsayre/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/activesupport-5.0.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:293:in `require'

from /Users/calebsayre/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/activesupport-5.0.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:293:in `block in require'

from /Users/calebsayre/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/activesupport-5.0.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:259:in `load_dependency'

from /Users/calebsayre/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/activesupport-5.0.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:293:in `require'

from /Users/calebsayre/Documents/Programming/jeopardy/bin/rails:9:in `<top (required)>'

from /Users/calebsayre/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/activesupport-5.0.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:287:in `load'

from /Users/calebsayre/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/activesupport-5.0.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:287:in `block in load'

from /Users/calebsayre/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/activesupport-5.0.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:259:in `load_dependency'

from /Users/calebsayre/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/activesupport-5.0.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:287:in `load'

from /Users/calebsayre/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/spring-1.7.2/lib/spring/commands/rails.rb:6:in `call'

from /Users/calebsayre/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/spring-1.7.2/lib/spring/command_wrapper.rb:38:in `call'

from /Users/calebsayre/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/spring-1.7.2/lib/spring/application.rb:191:in `block in serve'

from /Users/calebsayre/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/spring-1.7.2/lib/spring/application.rb:161:in `fork'

from /Users/calebsayre/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/spring-1.7.2/lib/spring/application.rb:161:in `serve'

from /Users/calebsayre/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/spring-1.7.2/lib/spring/application.rb:131:in `block in run'

from /Users/calebsayre/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/spring-1.7.2/lib/spring/application.rb:125:in `loop'

from /Users/calebsayre/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/spring-1.7.2/lib/spring/application.rb:125:in `run'

from /Users/calebsayre/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/spring-1.7.2/lib/spring/application/boot.rb:19:in `<top (required)>'

from /Users/calebsayre/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.1/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'

from /Users/calebsayre/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.1/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'

from -e:1:in `<main>'

I dont think I am doing anything wrong.  This is usually how I use Nokogiri and Mechanize and have not seen this issue before.

[Hassan Schroeder]

On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 6:29 PM, Caleb Sayre <drs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I keep getting this error when trying to use Nokogiri. Here is what I am
> doing:
> agent = Mechanize.new
> html = agent.get('http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=173')
> Nokogiri::HTML(html)

I honestly don't see how that could ever work - agent.get() returns
a Mechanize *page object*, not a string of html.

page = agent.get('http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=173')
Nokogiri::HTML(page.content)

should work, though.

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[Caleb Sayre]

Thanks hassan, I knew there was a silly mistake I was making.