From: Aaron Patterson <aaron@...>
Date: 2007-04-03T08:25:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple problem w/ WWW::Mechanize

Hi Tim,

On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 08:00:15AM +0900, tim.bounceback@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi all, I'm fairly new to Ruby, and, as an exercise, I'm writing some
> code for webforms. However, I can't seem to get the following code to
> work - instead, I get the following error:
> wikitesting.rb:8:in `get': undefined method `myform' for
> #<WWW::Mechanize::Page:0xb7996738> (NoMethodError)
>         from wikitesting.rb:10
> 
> Probably pretty simple, and I can see it's something wrong with the
> way I called the function, however, I've spent some time on it and
> can't figure it out. Here's the code:
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'mechanize'
> def get(pagename)
> 	agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
> 	agent.user_agent = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT
> 5.1)'
> 	page = agent.get('http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=' +
> pagename + '&action=edit')
> 	myform = page.form('editform')

Try replacing this line:

> 	return page.myform.fields.form('wpTextbox1')

With this:

  return myform.wpTextbox1

You've already found the form and stored it in the 'myform' variable.

> end
> text = get('Computer')
> pp text

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-- 
Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/