How to get an identifier (e.g xpath) from a nokogiri object?

Question

Walking through nokogiri and selecting elements with an xpath is fairly easy. I need the vice versa of this, meaning: I need to e.g. call .to_xpath on a nokogiri node to get the full xpath of an element to store it in a record.

Anyone knows a way of doing this?

Answer 1

Easiest way I can think off would be:

Nokogiri::CSS.xpath_for node.css_path

EDIT: you can give path method a try too.