From: tim.bounceback@...
Date: 2007-04-03T08:50:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple problem w/ WWW::Mechanize

On Apr 2, 7:25 pm, Aaron Patterson <a...@tenderlovemaking.com> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 08:00:15AM +0900, tim.bounceb...@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
>
> Also, if you have more questions, be sure to join the mechanize mailing
> list:
>
>  http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mechanize-users
>
> --
> Aaron Pattersonhttp://tenderlovemaking.com/

Thanks for replying.  I still get a similar error, though:
wikitesting.rb:8:in `get': undefined method `wpTextbox1' for
nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
        from wikitesting.rb:10

Any ideas? By the way, I've joined the mailing list, and any future
questions I might have will probably be directed there.

Thanks,

Tim