Scrape cannot find nested content using the Mechanize gem

How do I scrape a list of items nested in a scrolldown menu?

To help contextualize, here is the chunk of the view source that I am trying to scrape from:

<!-- mp_trans_schedule_disable_start --> <select name="confirm1$ddlLeavingFromMap" onchange="javascript:setTimeout('__doPostBack(\'confirm1$ddlLeavingFromMap\',\'\')', 0)" id="confirm1_ddlLeavingFromMap" class="input"> <option selected="selected" value="-1">Select</option> <option value="429">Beamsville, ON</option> <option value="438">Belleville, ON</option> <option value="277">Brockville, ON</option> <option value="273">Buffalo Airport, NY</option> <option value="95">Buffalo, NY</option> <option value="436">Burlington, ON</option> <option value="424">Cambridge, ON</option> <option value="440">Cobourg, ON</option> <option value="278">Cornwall, ON</option> <option value="434">Fort Erie, ON</option> <option value="428">Grimsby, ON</option> <option value="426">Hamilton GO Centre, ON</option> <option value="425">Hamilton McMaster University, ON</option> <option value="276">Kingston, ON</option> <option value="279">Kirkland, PQ</option> <option value="423">Kitchener, ON</option> <option value="435">Mississauga, ON</option> <option value="280">Montreal, PQ</option> <option value="437">Napanee, ON</option> <option value="124">Niagara Falls, ON</option> <option value="449">Niagara Fallsview Casino, ON</option> <option value="431">Oakville, ON</option> <option value="433">Port Colborne, ON</option> <option value="274">Scarborough, ON</option> <option value="427">St Catharines, ON</option> <option value="448">St. Catharines Brock University, ON</option> <option value="315">TC Kingston</option> <option value="310">Toronto Airport, ON</option> <option value="145">Toronto, ON</option> <option value="439">Trenton, ON</option> <option value="422">Waterloo, ON</option> <option value="432">Welland, ON</option> <option value="275">Whitby, ON</option> </select> <!-- mp_trans_schedule_disable_end --> 

I tried to focus on the CSS selector that is responsible for choosing an option, as well as, the option tag itself: puts agent.page.parser.css("select").text & puts agent.page.parser.css("option").text but both outputs turned up nil.

I also tried:

puts agent.page.parser.css("confirm1$ddlLeavingFromMap").text and form.field_with(:name => 'confirm1$ddlLeavingFromMap').options[1].click

Which also turned up nil.

and this:

require 'htmlentities' require "mechanize" a = Mechanize.new { |agent| agent.user_agent_alias = 'Mac Safari' } @resultHash = {} a.get("http://ca.megabus.com/BusStops.aspx") do |page| parsedPage = page.parser @resultHash[:some_data_name] = parsedPage.at_xpath("//h3[@class='right_col']").text.split(/\s+/).join(" ") end 

However, when I check to see if it turns up valid using rake -T -A, I get undefined method text for nil:NilClass. I do not know why.

I appreciate any feedback and thanks in advance!