was using gsub!() on data which was being written to the filesystem

stevenwilkin · Aug 24, 2009 · 2157e03 · 2157e03
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diff --git a/lib/get_trends.rb b/lib/get_trends.rb
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@
 
 # peforms a google image search for `q` and returns the url of the first image returned
 def image_search(q)
-	q.gsub!(/[\W]/, '+')
+	term = q.gsub(/[\W]/, '+')
-	open(SEARCH + q) do |f|
+	open(SEARCH + term) do |f|
 		return nil unless f.status[0] == '200'
 		h = Hpricot(f.read)
 		h.at('#ImgCont//img')['src']