From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-11-05T21:44:49+09:00
Subject: Re: how to got a preview of a web page

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Haofei wrote:
> for example i want to have a method which just like
>=20
> def preview_of ( url )
>  #some relate operation
> end
>=20
> then i can have a picture (jpeg, png ...) of the web page somewhere,
> i am not familiar with the graphic libraries of ruby.
> do u guys have write something like this ?
> thanks :-)
>=20

def preview_of(url)
	`opera -newpage #{url}`
end

*cough*

Seriously, this is a nontrivial example that requires you to more or
less write a webbrowser. The simplest (relatively speaking) way would be
to use ruby-gnome2 and Gtk::MozEmbed, and severe whacking of Gtk with a
cluebyfour to make it render to an image buffer which you'd then output
to disk.

David Vallner


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