From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>
Date: 2005-01-18T23:56:24+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] WWW::Mechanize alike in Ruby

Jamis Buck wrote:
> 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?

With -current I mean the development version of Ruby. Sorry for the 
confusion. Maybe this could get back-ported into the stable-trunk?

>>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.

Well, just download the net/ directory from the development branch of 
Ruby, and put it into a net-overrides directory (you only need 
net/http.rb, net/https.rb and net/protocol.rb). Then modify mechanize.rb:

   # put this at the top of mechanize.rb
   $LOAD_PATH.unshift "./net-overrides"

This should then work with Ruby 1.8.2.

Regards,

   Michael