I've never combined multiple buildpacks, but it is possible https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-buildpack-multi
let us know how it works out! I think there are others that want to use a scraper like phantomjs, and a website in the same app. On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Nícolas Iensen <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks John, I was reading about phantomjs and it looks awesome! > > I have a Rails application, and I want to use phantomjs in a rake task. > But when I use the buildpack you mentioned the Rails app goes down. > > Do you know how can I use phantomjs only on the rake tasks, and keep using > Rails environment for the web server? > > > On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 6:46 PM, John McCaffrey > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I like using phantomjs for scraping, though I haven't used it on heroku >> yet. >> >> I see there is a buildpack >> https://github.com/stomita/heroku-buildpack-phantomjs >> >> this example might be helpful >> http://benjaminbenben.com/2013/07/28/phantomjs-webserver/ >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 4:11 AM, Josal <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, guys. >>> >>> I want to scrap an HTML site which is using javascript to generate the >>> contents. So, I can't use mechanize gem or similar ones. I've tried >>> rdom and taka with johnson, but still some problems (I could give you >>> more details). The best and easiest option I have at the moment is to >>> use watir (or selenium or celerity for jruby). I've selected watir, >>> it's simple, the watir gem or even the watir-webdriver gem. I like >>> them. But I have two problems: >>> >>> - I want to deploy the app in heroku but I get the error: "Could not >>> find Firefox binary (os=linux)". >>> - I don't know if it's possible to access to the watir logic without >>> the need of the browser binary (and without open it in background). >>> >>> I currently have an answer here: >>> >>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3597118/can-you-deploy-watir-on-heroku-to-generate-html-snapshots-if-so-how >>> , >>> but I just wanted to confirm the options I have. >>> >>> I write a watir-webdriver example, working well in local, to ilustrate >>> the simple process (in this case html is not dynamically generated, of >>> course, it's only an example): >>> >>> require "rubygems" >>> require "watir-webdriver" >>> require "watir-webdriver/extensions/wait" >>> >>> browser = Watir::Browser.new :firefox >>> browser.goto "http://google.com"; >>> browser.text_field(:name, 'q').set "watir-webdriver" >>> browser.button(:name, 'btnG').click >>> >>> Maybe the only option I have is to use EC2, but it's a pitty because I >>> only need to scrap javascript-generated HTML and I want to keep on >>> using heroku, I love it!!! >>> >>> What do you think is the best gem for me to do it on heroku? Or >>> there's no option and I have to use EC2 just to open a browser, losing >>> the heroku goodness? >>> >>> Thanks in advance >>> >>> -- >>> >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Heroku" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> 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. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> 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 a topic in the >> Google Groups "Heroku Community" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/heroku/ePZ-Ws263Ug/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Nícolas Iensen > > -- > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
