Ruby Programmer

We are looking for several programmers to help build up our core team. This will be part-time work on small projects that you can fit into your typical schedule (we don’t have major tight deadlines). We are members of several sports-related websites from which we gather information, stats, scores, etc. on a daily basis. To make our internal systems easier, we want to create automatic procedures to either download text results files where available, or scrape/download the results page if text files are not available. Phase I of work is to simply write procedures to visit the pages daily (or multiple times a day) and copy down text files or screens. Phase II of work will be to parse the data from the scraped pages into a text file. We are a Linux/Solaris environment and want all scraping work performed in Ruby if possible (php, Javascript is okay if for some reason Ruby doesn’t fit for a particular task)