From: Dan Tenenbaum Date: 2006-03-14T04:40:05+09:00 Subject: how do I post to a form (http) in Ruby 1.8.2? Hi all, How do I do the equivalent of Net::HTTP.post_form() in Ruby 1.8.2? (This method was not implemented until 1.8.3). This might seem like a strange question but bear with me. Though our production server is running Ruby 1.8.4, our development machines are Macs using Locomotive (which is a self-contained Ruby/Rails environment). I have been told by one of the lead Locomotive developers that it is virtually impossible to upgrade the version of Ruby inside Locomotive, that I should wait for the next version which will use a more current version of Ruby. So my question is, until then, how would I make the following code fragment, which works in 1.8.3+, work in 1.8.2? require 'net/http' require 'uri' parms = {:client=>"safari", :rls=>"en", :q => "myquery", :ie => "UTF-8", :oe => "UTF-8"} url = "http://www.google.com/search" res = Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse(url), parms) print res.body print (By "work", I mean, getting something back from the server--in this particular case the server may return an error, but at least the post succeeded.) It has been suggested that I extend Ruby to implement this method. I gave that a try and it didn't seem too easy, as post_form in turn depends on other methods that don't exist in 1.8.2. But I am a total newbie at extending Ruby so it could be I missed something I couldn't get the examples of request_post to work either. At this point I don't care what approach I use, I just want to be able to post to a form on an http server in Ruby 1.8.2. Any idea what would be the quickest way to do that? Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.