From: Richard Conroy <richard.conroy@...>
Date: 2011-04-01T21:05:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Automating simple web forms

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On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Marc Weber <marco-oweber@gmx.de> wrote:

> 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.
>

Celerity.

It is also pretty good, and bloody fast. It also has some nice features wrt
HTTPS and certificates (inherited from the HttpUnit library). The Ruby API
is pretty good - a nice example of how to wrap a Java API with Ruby.

Capybara supports Celerity as a driver, but I think there is talk of
removing it.

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