From: Peter Szinek <peter@...>
Date: 2007-03-30T04:03:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Code to login into any account with login and passport.

Sachin Gadkar wrote:
> Hi Ruby_pals,
> Say, I have login and password for an account.
> Is it possible to get logged into it through a ruby code.

One way is to use scRUBYt!:

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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 0

   stuff 'My Personal Page'

end
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Or you can use WWW::Mechanize (scRUBYt! is also built on Mechanize) to 
do the same thing. If you would like to also scrape something there, I 
would suggest scRUBYt!, otherwise Mechanize is the way to go.

Cheers,
Peter
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