Issue with ruby parsing - html

Question

Im just having a slight problem parising a website with nokogiri in ruby.
Here is what the site looks like
<div id="post_message_111112" class="postcontent">
Hee is text 1
here is another
</div>
<div id="post_message_111111" class="postcontent">
Here is text 2
</div>
Here is my code to parse it
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(myNewLink))
myPost = doc.xpath("//div[#class='postcontent']/text()").to_a()
ii=0
while ii!=myPost.length
puts "#{ii} #{myPost[ii].to_s().strip}"
ii+=1
end
My problem is when it displays it, because of the new line after Hee is text 1, the to_a puts it weird like so
myPost[0] = hee is text 1
myPost[1] = here is another
myPost[2] = here is text 2
I want each div to be its own message. like
myPost[0] = hee is text 1 here is another
myPost[1] = here is text 2
How would i solve this thanks
UPDATED
I tried
myPost = doc.xpath("//div[#class='postcontent']/text()").to_a()
myPost.each_with_index do |post, index|
puts "#{index} #{post.to_s().gsub(/\n/, ' ').strip}"
end
I put post.to_s().gsub because it was complaining about gsub not being a method for post. But i still have the same issue. I know im doing it wrong just wrecking my head
UPDATE 2
Forgot to say that the new line is <br /> and even with
doc.search('br').each do |n|
n.replace('')
end
or
doc.search('br').remove
The issue is still there

Answer 1

If you look at the myPost array, you will see that each div is in fact its own message. The first just happens to include a newline-character \n. To replace it with a space, use #gsub(/\n/, ' '). So your loop looks like this:
myPost.each_with_index do |post, index|
puts "#{index} #{post.to_s.gsub(/\n/, ' ').strip}"
end
Edit:
According to my limited understanding of it, xpath can only find nodes. The child nodes are <br />, so either you have multiple texts between them or you have the div tag included in your search. There sure is a way to join the texts between the <br /> nodes, but I don't know it.
Until you find it, here something that works:
replace your xpath match with "//div[#class='postcontent']"
adjust your loop to delete the div tags:
myPost.each_with_index do |post, index|
post = post.to_s
post.gsub!(/\n/, ' ')
post.gsub!(/^<div[^>]*>/, '') # delete opening div tag
post.gsub!(%r|</\s*div[^>]*>|, '') # delete closing div tag
puts "#{index} #{post.strip}"
end

Answer 2

Here, let me clean that up for you:
doc.search('div.postcontent').each_with_index do |div, i|
puts "#{i} #{div.text.gsub(/\s+/, ' ').strip}"
end
# 0 Hee is text 1 here is another
# 1 Here is text 2