From: Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2008-01-03T20:23:52+09:00
Subject: Re: calling a javascript function with Mechanize

On Jan 3, 2008 9:24 AM, Kamal Fariz <kamal@ror.com.my> wrote:
> > There is a function in javascript
> >
> > snip
> >
> > I think this function is not getting called so I am not able to get
> > the expected data. I want to call this function with Mechanize.
>
> Mechanize can't evaluate javascript. The creator of Mechanize, Aaron
> Patterson, is working on a new project called RKelly which has the
> goal of being able to evaluate Javascript in Ruby.
>
> Until then, your only solution is to use Selenium or Watir to control
> an actual browser.

IIRC scrubyt uses firewatir for similar cases, so you may have better
luck using that. (http://scrubyt.org/)