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  <modified type="array">
    <modified>
      <diff>@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ $hoe = Hoe.new('imdb', Imdb::VERSION) do |p|
   p.changes              = p.paragraphs_of(&quot;History.txt&quot;, 0..1).join(&quot;\n\n&quot;)
   p.rubyforge_name       = 'imdb'
   p.extra_deps         = [
-    ['httparty','&gt;= 0.4.3'],
     ['hpricot', '&gt;= 0.8.1']
   ]
   p.extra_dev_deps = [
@@ -46,4 +45,4 @@ task :tag do
 end
 
 desc 'Do a full release'
-task :full_release =&gt; [:release, :tag, :publish_docs, :post_news]
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+task :full_release =&gt; [:release, :tag, :publish_docs, :post_news]</diff>
      <filename>Rakefile</filename>
    </modified>
    <modified>
      <diff>@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 $:.unshift(File.dirname(__FILE__)) unless
   $:.include?(File.dirname(__FILE__)) || $:.include?(File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__)))
 
+require 'open-uri'
 require 'rubygems'
-require 'httparty'
 require 'hpricot'
 
 require 'imdb/movie'
@@ -11,4 +11,4 @@ require 'imdb/string_extensions'
 
 module Imdb
   VERSION = '0.4.2'
-end
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+end</diff>
      <filename>lib/imdb.rb</filename>
    </modified>
    <modified>
      <diff>@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@ module Imdb
   
   # Represents a Movie on IMDB.com
   class Movie
-    include HTTParty
-    
     attr_accessor :id, :url, :title
     
     # Initialize a new IMDB movie object with it's IMDB id (as a String)
@@ -84,7 +82,7 @@ module Imdb
     
     # Use HTTParty to fetch the raw HTML for this movie.
     def self.find_by_id(imdb_id)
-      get(&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt#{imdb_id}/&quot;)
+      open(&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt#{imdb_id}/&quot;)
     end
     
     # Convenience method for search</diff>
      <filename>lib/imdb/movie.rb</filename>
    </modified>
    <modified>
      <diff>@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@ module Imdb
   
   # Search IMDB for a title
   class Search
-    include HTTParty
-    
     attr_reader :query
 
     # Initialize a new IMDB search with the specified query
@@ -30,7 +28,7 @@ module Imdb
     end
     
     def self.query(query)
-      get(&quot;http://www.imdb.com/find?q=#{CGI::escape(query)};s=tt&quot;)
+      open(&quot;http://www.imdb.com/find?q=#{CGI::escape(query)};s=tt&quot;)
     end
     
     def parse_movies</diff>
      <filename>lib/imdb/search.rb</filename>
    </modified>
    <modified>
      <diff>@@ -14,7 +14,12 @@ module Imdb #:nordoc:
     def imdb_strip_tags
       gsub(/&lt;\/?[^&gt;]*&gt;/, &quot;&quot;)
     end
+
+    # Strips out whitespace then tests if the string is empty.
+    def blank?
+      strip.empty?
+    end unless method_defined?(:blank?)
   end
 end
 
-String.send :include, Imdb::StringExtensions
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+String.send :include, Imdb::StringExtensions</diff>
      <filename>lib/imdb/string_extensions.rb</filename>
    </modified>
  </modified>
  <removed type="array"/>
  <parents type="array">
    <parent>
      <id>3354d2c4e1931aac832fce4fab76df7a176fc723</id>
    </parent>
  </parents>
  <author>
    <name>Michael Guterl</name>
    <email>mguterl@gmail.com</email>
  </author>
  <url>http://github.com/ariejan/imdb/commit/6801170e865b217ca0251dd81b3e45ae16b95a08</url>
  <id>6801170e865b217ca0251dd81b3e45ae16b95a08</id>
  <committed-date>2009-06-14T07:41:38-07:00</committed-date>
  <authored-date>2009-06-14T07:40:23-07:00</authored-date>
  <message>replaced use of HTTParty with open-uri</message>
  <tree>6ed6a8ecca27769fb65db9281df7a07522dc36bb</tree>
  <committer>
    <name>Michael Guterl</name>
    <email>mguterl@gmail.com</email>
  </committer>
</commit>
