flov · February 2, 2010 01:52 · Feb 2, 2010 · Feb 2, 2010
diff --git a/get all states for countries b/get all states for countries
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-require 'open-uri'
-require 'hpricot'
-
-(1...267).each do |x|
-  open("http://www.couchsurfing.org/get_option_values.html?cpaint_function=get_states_auto&cpaint_argument[]=#{x}") do |f|
-    f.first.split('#').collect{|i| i.split('|')}.each{|i| puts "country_id: #{x}, state_id: #{i[0]}, state: #{i[1]}"}
-  end
-end

diff --git a/get all states for countries and write them to yaml file b/get all states for countries and write them to yaml file
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+require 'open-uri'
+require 'yaml'
+
+h={}
+(1..267).each do |x|
+  open("http://www.couchsurfing.org/get_option_values.html?cpaint_function=get_states_auto&cpaint_argument[]=#{x}") do |f|
+    if f.first
+      # anybody knows why it doesnt check if the string is empty before it executes the split ???
+      # I went through all x which dont work and substitude f.first with 
+      # x!=112 and x!=122 and x!=124 and x!= 150 and x!=219 and x!= 240
+      # which works. Pretty weird!
+      f.first.split('#').collect{|i| i.split('|')}.each do |i|
+        h["state_#{i[0]}"]={}
+        h["state_#{i[0]}"]["id"] = i[0]
+        h["state_#{i[0]}"]["state_id"] = i[1]
+        h["state_#{i[0]}"]["country_id"] = x
+        puts "country_id: #{x}, state_id: #{i[0]}, state: #{i[1]}"
+      end
+    end
+  end  
+end
+File.open('states.yml', 'w') do |f|
+  f.write(h.to_yaml)
+end
diff --git a/get all states for countries b/get all states for countries
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+require 'open-uri'
+require 'hpricot'
+
+(1...267).each do |x|
+  open("http://www.couchsurfing.org/get_option_values.html?cpaint_function=get_states_auto&cpaint_argument[]=#{x}") do |f|
+    f.first.split('#').collect{|i| i.split('|')}.each{|i| puts "country_id: #{x}, state_id: #{i[0]}, state: #{i[1]}"}
+  end
+end