From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>
Date: 2005-01-23T21:47:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Fun with WWW::Mechanize

James Britt wrote:
> I thought I would see about adding some search function to ruby-doc, and 
> ended up taking Mike Neumann's WWW::Mechanize[0] for a test drive.

Nice to hear ;-)

> Sweet it be, as it took almost no time to get running code that takes 
> search words, queries Google, parses the results, and creates a new page 
> page.
> 
> Try it here:
> 
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/gs.rb/REXML%20pullparser
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/gs.rb/Timeout
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/gs.rb/testunit+assert
> 
> I had to hack Mechanize to have it grab 'p' elements, but it is dead 
> easy to do.

What exactly do you had to hack? If it's worth, I'll add it to the lib.


Regards,

   Michael