From: "Sandor Szücs" <sandor.szuecs@...>
Date: 2009-01-22T19:12:58+09:00
Subject: Re: mechanize & field name for search passed as string

On 21.01.2009, at 05:46, Edouard Dantes wrote:
>
> I am writing a method to perform a similar to the below mentionned
> google search but i want it to accept the field's name for the search
> entry as a string.
>
> In the following example from the Mechanize docs I would expect it  
> to be
> search.send('q') instead of search.q but I get this error

In the example the method which is called is not q(). It's q=(), so
if you want so send() then use the right method.

> ./scrapingGoogle.rb:14: syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting kEND
>      search.send('q') = 'Hello world'.

search.send('q=', 'Hello World') or by symbol
search.send(:q=, 'Hello World')

regards, Sandor Szücs
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