From: David Wright <david_v_wright@...>
Date: 2010-05-21T02:19:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Scrape javascript content

Mechanize cannot execute javascript but watir/celerity can. (I've never 
used harmony)

#in watir (could also use firewatir and/or the safari equivalent)
require 'watir'
require 'watir/ie'

# should work identically with celerity
#require 'celerity
#@browser = Celerity::IE.new

@login_page = 'http://example.com/'

@browser = Watir::IE.new
@browser.goto @login_page
@browser.text_field(:name, 'username').set(@user)
@browser.text_field(:name, 'password').set(@pass)
@browser.button(:value, "LogIn").click

# go to page where the javascript link is
@broswer.link(:text, "Link Name").click

# click it
# this assumes the fireClick event is 'just' an ajax call which returns 
content
@broswer.link(:id, "iroc_0").click
@browser.wait # wait for ajax to return

# show page's displaying text (not view source)
puts @browser.text
# if above fires a pop up window more code is needed to retrieve the 
content
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