From: Peter Szinek <peter@...>
Date: 2007-01-13T23:40:24+09:00
Subject: Re: WWW::Mechanize problem

Stefan Mahlitz wrote:
> Peter Szinek 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?
> 
> You could try
> 
> search_form["field-keyword"] = "Ruby"
Hey, that worked! Thanks a lot.

SG,
Peter

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