I can't address your specific situation, but can recommend phantomjs instead
https://github.com/stomita/heroku-buildpack-phantomjs On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Jack Royal-Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to scrape some websites that rely on Javascript, so I found this > article<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11494994/is-it-possible-to-plug-a-javascript-engine-with-ruby-and-nokogiri> > discussing > Watir and headless processing. I ran into the following > exception: Headless::Exception: Xvfb not found on your system. So I > started researching Xvfb and discovered that it is a stand-alone display > server. So I started looking into how to get it installed on Heroku, > I found a gist <https://gist.github.com/atduskgreg/5100799> where the > author is discussing building a static linked binary, but he doesn't really > come to a successful conclusion. I've also seen mention of using a custom > build-pack, but nothing definite there either. > > Does anyone have experience with this and can offer some advice on how to > proceed? > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Heroku" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Heroku Community" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Thanks, -John -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
