From: Kaspar Schiess <eule@...>
Date: 2009-09-09T15:42:47+09:00
Subject: Re: execute javascript in Ruby

> I use 'net/http' lib for get and parse html pages. But I also need to
> execute some javascripts on pages from my ruby-scripts like on
> web-browsers. Is it possible? May be there are special libraries...
> Please advise.

Have a look at watir[1] or even celerity[2] (on jruby).

Those will let you pretend to be a browser, GET/POST pages and run 
javascript just as the real browser would.

kaspar

[1] http://wtr.rubyforge.org/index.html
[2] http://celerity.rubyforge.org/doc/