Getting the Title of a web page in a clearer format using ruby, open-uri and

if request.post?
      @note = Note.new(params[:note])
      #Load requirements
      require "open-uri"
      require "hpricot"
      #Get the content of the URL
      document_html = open(@note.url, "User-Agent" => "Fanopic")
      #Check to see if it is a HTML Page
      if not document_html.content_type == "text/html"
        title = _("The page is not TEXT/HTML")
        flash[:error] = notice("error", title)
        redirect_to :action => "create" and return
      end
      #Take the URL of the content (if there were any redirects)
      @note.url = document_html.base_uri.to_s
      #Get the stream open (make it an Hpricot object)
      document_html = Hpricot(document_html)
      #Scan the page for needed elements
      document_title        =  document_html.search("title")
      document_description  =  document_html.search("//meta[@name='description']")
      #Take the needed elements without nasty symbols
      if not document_title.blank?
        @note.title = document_title.html.strip
      else
        title = _("We couldn't acquire the page title.")
        flash[:error] = notice("error", title)
        redirect_to :action => "create" and return
      end
      if not document_description.blank?
        @note.content = document_description[0].attributes["content"].strip
      else
        title = _("We couldn't acquire a page description.")
        flash[:error] = notice("error", title)
        redirect_to :action => "create" and return
      end
    end