I've been using heroku-buildpack-multi and it works without any problems.
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 3:23 PM, John McCaffrey <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. 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