From: Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2007-01-13T23:38:54+09:00
Subject: Re: WWW::Mechanize problem

On 1/13/07, Peter Szinek <peter@rubyrailways.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I could not yet figure out how to work around this problem:
>
> agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
> page = agent.get("http://www.amazon.com/")
> search_form = page.forms.with.name("site-search").first
> search_form.field-keywords = "Ruby"
>
> i.e. that the name of the input field is 'field-keywords', so Ruby
> thinks (rightfully of course) that I am calling the method 'field' of
> the object search_form and of course then the whole thing does not work.
> Any suggestions?

guessing from http://mechanize.rubyforge.org/classes/WWW/Mechanize/Form.html:

search_form['field-keywords'] = "Ruby"

or you could do

search_form.send(:'field-keywords=', "Ruby")