Can ruby automate form submission?

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Can someone point me to either a gem or a method on how i might go
about filling in and submitting data on a web form that uses POST?

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Have you looked into the mechanize gem?

Eric

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On Feb 22, 9:02 pm, "Simon Jackson" <simon.jack...@gmail.com> wrote:

Can someone point me to either a gem or a method on how i might go
about filling in and submitting data on a web form that uses POST?

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thats exactly what i was looking for, thank you!

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On 2/22/07, Eric I. <rubytraining@gmail.com> wrote:

On Feb 22, 9:02 pm, "Simon Jackson" <simon.jack...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can someone point me to either a gem or a method on how i might go
> about filling in and submitting data on a web form that uses POST?

Have you looked into the mechanize gem?

Eric

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Simon Jackson wrote:

thats exactly what i was looking for, thank you!

Maybe it is an overkill for your situation, but you could chek out also scRUBYt! (http://scrubyt.org), a Web scraping framework based on WWW::Mechanize and Hpricot.

For example, login to rubyforge.org looks like this:

rubyforge_data = Scrubyt::Extractor.define do
   fetch 'http://rubyforge.org/&#39;
   click_link 'Log In'
   fill_textfield 'form_loginname', '*login_here*'
   fill_textfield 'form_pw', '*pass_here*'
   submit
end

Cheers,
Peter

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