From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-02-14T13:14:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Form Filler

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 eastcoastcoder@gmail.com wrote:

> Is there an equivalent in Ruby to the Perl modules which can "fill out
> an html/http form"?
>
> Given a hash, I'd like to either get the query string to append to the
> URL for GET's, or the POST contents to append for POST's, as if the
> hash was the form[field] = value.  The routine should handle the url
> encoding and the like.
>
> Any luck?
> (If not, anyone up for a quick few lines of Ruby ninjahood?)

   harp:~ > cat a.rb
   require "cgi"

   class ::Hash
     def query() map{|k,v| [CGI::escape(k), CGI::escape(v)].join "="}.join "&" end
   end

   query = { "foo" => "< > &", "bar" => "http://b/a space" }

   puts query.query


   harp:~ > ruby a.rb
   foo=%3C+%3E+%26&bar=http%3A%2F%2Fb%2Fa+space


hth.

-a

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