From: "ilpuccio.febo@..." <ilpuccio.febo@...>
Date: 2008-01-04T19:14:58+09:00
Subject: Re: calling a javascript function with Mechanize

On Jan 3, 12:23 pm, Jano Svitok <jan.svi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 3, 2008 9:24 AM, Kamal Fariz <ka...@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.

Take a look here:
http://code.google.com/p/ruby-spidermonkey/
would be very interesting binding javascript engine directely in ruby.

> IIRC scrubyt uses firewatir for similar cases, so you may have better
> luck using that. (http://scrubyt.org/)
Can you point me on that kind of example, plz?

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