Nokogiri returning values as a string, not an array

Question

I\'m running a script using Nokogiri that returns multiple values. I was under the impression (and reassured by multiple sources) that the results should be in the form of a

Answer 1

NodeSet#text always returns a string (otherwise it would probably be called NodeSet#texts). Nokogiri docs are not so great, when in doubt check the source code:

  # lib/nokogiri/xml/node_set.rb
  def inner_text
    collect{|j| j.inner_text}.join('')
  end
  alias :text :inner_text

To get an array of texts: nodes.map(&:text)