From: tim.bounceback@...
Date: 2007-04-05T05:05:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple problem w/ WWW::Mechanize

On Apr 3, 1:36 am, Aaron Patterson <a...@tenderlovemaking.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 08:50:04AM +0900, tim.bounceb...@gmail.com wrote:
> > 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.
>
> It looks like Wikipidia may not like that parameter in the URL.  When I
> change 'Computer' to 'Main', it seems to work:
>
>   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')
>     return myform.wpTextbox1
>   end
>   text = get('Main')
>   pp text
>
> --
> Aaron Pattersonhttp://tenderlovemaking.com/

OK, thanks, that seems to work!

Tim