How to find an element by name using Nokogiri?

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Published on 2010-04-02T06:31:17Z Indexed on 2010/04/02 7:23 UTC
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<input type="Checkbox" checked="" name="new">

if I have the above html in a document, how would I find it by searching for its name attribute?

Edit 1: Clarified that I was looking for a solution using Nokogiri

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