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Wow the ruby/rails community works fast. Igvita has an article explaining how to use hpricot with the magic of firefox’s firebug pluign. And scRUBYt has been released, which is a billed as WWW::Mechanize and Hpricot on Steroids

A 301 redirect is a permanent redirect, which tells the search engines to index the redirected to URL rather than the current URL.

You can use this when migrating from legacy content management systems, or to make sure that you only have 1 URL per page.

With the folloing code in your controller, Rails makes it easy :

      headers["Status"] = "301 Moved Permanently"
      redirect_to "http://someurl/"