How to open URL's in rails?

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Published on 2010-06-02T02:17:42Z Indexed on 2010/06/02 2:23 UTC
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I'm trying to read in the html of a certain website.

Trying @something = open("http://www.google.com/") fails with the following error:

Errno::ENOENT in testController#show

No such file or directory - http://www.google.com/

Going to http://www.google.com/, I obviously see the site. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

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