require './environments' def rebuild_leaders puts "rebuilding_leaders called" Leader.destroy_all mechanize = Mechanize.new page = mechanize.get('http://trugul.com/highscores') leaders = page.search "//table[@id='highscores_table']//tr[@class='clickable']/td[2]" leaders.each do |td_user| user = td_user.text.scan(/[A-Za-z0-9]+/).first Leader.new(leader: user).save end end