From: Jamis Buck <jamis_buck@...>
Date: 2005-01-18T23:32:30+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] WWW::Mechanize alike in Ruby

On 22:04 Tue 18 Jan     , Michael Neumann wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I just read the Web-testing thread in the latest "Ruby Weekly News" and want 
> to tell the interested people that I hacked up a little library which I use 
> in some small projects. Web::Unit didn't work for my purposes, and it was 
> easier to reinvent the wheel than to hack Web::Unit (of course I first tried 
> to hack it...).
> 
> It depends on narf-lib (>= 0.6.3) more exactly, it's version of htmltools, and 
> requires Ruby-current (due to limitations in the net/http library of 1.8.2). 

Isn't 1.8.2 the current Ruby? Or does "Ruby-current" mean something
other than what I'm understanding it to mean?

> If you want to try it out with Ruby 1.8.2, just get the net/*.rb files from 
> Ruby-current and use these instead (or use local overrides: 
> $LOAD_PATH.unshift './net-overrides' ... ).
> 
> Features:
>   * Cookies (very preliminary, no expire etc.)
>   * automatic redirect
>   * Forms, Links
> 

[snip]

> 
> I've realized that Ruby has client libraries for www/http (cgi.rb, net/http) 
> and server libraries for http (webrick), but not a common library that puts 
> those things together...

Nice job, Michael. I'm looking forward to trying this one out.

- Jamis

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