From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@...>
Date: 2006-10-25T10:30:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Best way to automate web browser tasks?


On Oct 24, 2006, at 6:00 PM, Hal Fulton wrote:

> I know there's Watir or something... but I'm not using
> IE (rather Firefox) and I don't want to "control the
> browser" per se...
>
> Rather I want to automate some repetitive tasks... like
> go to a form, fill in a couple of fields, click a checkbox,
> pick from a dropdown, and click on Save.
>
> How would you do this?
>
>
> Hal
>

	WWW::Mechanize[1]  is pretty cool for stuff like this. There also  
exists SafariWatir and FireWatir for safari and firefox respectively.  
But firewatir is 20 times slower then normal watir at the moment.

[1] http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9457

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