On Feb 15, 2012, at 1:29 PM, Peter wrote: > Hi, > > I'm interested in generating an offline demo of my app using these > rough steps: > > 1) Decide some pre-determined paths for demoing and create a demo user > on a test system. > 2) Walk through the demo steps on the test system outputting the > resultant HTML for each page into the demo directory. > 3) Modify the output HTML so any steps that would hit the server (i.e. > login) instead just go to the next page in the flow. > > In this way I can basically provide most of my apps functionality > offline but in a non-persisted way. My question is if there are any > tools that would help with this? Like something that I can specify > the steps/urls and it will auto walk and generate the HTML output for > me? And something that will inspect said output for the unsupported > items (POST form for login) and either auto-set them to the next step, > or at least tell me so I can manually go change them?
That's a really cool idea. Sounds like it could be a much lighter weight/higher screen quality than a screencast, too. I don't know how you could do the "select a list/path of pages" part, but I usually use wget to spider through a site and convert it to offline (static HTML) using this recipe: /usr/local/bin/wget --html-extension --recursive --convert-links http://www.example.com That's not going to fix your forms, but maybe some post-processing in TextMate or BBEdit (or another editor that can search through folders) might help find all the method="post" strings and give you a starting place. Walter > > Thanks, > \Peter > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
