This question is probably poorly structured so please bear with me, I'm new at this.
I'm trying to build a simple web scraper but every time i run my code i get this warning in terminal. I have tried to follow the link to the github issues hoping i would get a clearer explanation but i didn't understand it there either. Tried googling, but nothing there either.
[DEPRECATION] HTTParty will no longer override `response#nil?`.
This functionality will be removed in future versions.
Please, add explicit check `response.body.nil? || response.body.empty?`.
For more info refer to: https://github.com/jnunemaker/httparty/issues/568
I guess what i want to know is, in basic terms, what does this warning mean? and is there something i should do different from now on when using the HTTParty gem?
This was annoying me as well. You are probably passing the response from HTTParty.get to some other code that is testing for nil. I was passing the body to Nokogiri::HTML and that code was eventually calling HTTParty.response.nil?. To fix, I started sending the "body" to Nokogiri instead of the response object. Quite a few people will probably run into this as the Nokogiri example code with this pattern is all over the place.
I now use this:
doc = HTTParty.get('https://some/site')
parsed ||= Nokogiri::HTML(doc.body)
instead of before when getting the warning it was:
doc = HTTParty.get('https://some/site')
parsed ||= Nokogiri::HTML(doc)