From: Peter Szinek <peter@...>
Date: 2007-02-23T17:07:29+09:00
Subject: Re: can ruby automate form submission?

Simon Jackson wrote:
> thats exactly what i was looking for, thank you!

Maybe it is an overkill for your situation, but you could chek out also 
scRUBYt! (http://scrubyt.org), a Web scraping framework based on 
WWW::Mechanize and Hpricot.

For example, login to rubyforge.org looks like this:

rubyforge_data = Scrubyt::Extractor.define do
   fetch          'http://rubyforge.org/'
   click_link     'Log In'
   fill_textfield 'form_loginname', '*login_here*'
   fill_textfield 'form_pw', '*pass_here*'
   submit
end


Cheers,
Peter
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