From: Marc Weber <marco-oweber@...>
Date: 2011-04-01T07:35:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Automating simple web forms

Excerpts from Eric Christopherson's message of Thu Mar 31 04:06:32 +0200 2011:
> What would be the best headless web testing/automation library to use,
> given that:
> 1. I want to automate filling in and submitting forms on one web site,
> which uses only a little JavaScript.
> 2. I want something that balances ease of use and stability, and is
> reasonably actively maintained
> ?

The only headless browser supporting JS I know about is HTMLUnit
(written in Java). I remember having seen some libraries providing Ruby
interfaces for it.

If you don't need JS mechanize etc are alternatives.

Marc Weber