On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 4:46:54 PM UTC, Frederick Cheung wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 2:26:45 PM UTC, paul h wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> I need to post data from my rails app to an external web form I do not >> have any control over. There is no public API, so I was wondering if anyone >> had had a similar problem, and was it possible to to utilize Selenium in >> production in order to automate the form filling - similar to tagging a >> cuke scenario with a @javascript tag in order to automate page interaction. >> >> > I don't think you want to use selenium - unless you actually want > something to be launching browser instances and so on (and then you end up > having to install an X server etc. on your production machines) > > Have you looked at the mechanize gem? I've used it in the past to fill in > forms as part of a load testing script. >
Hi Fred, I will look into the mechanize gem today. Thank you very much for the pointer. > Fred > > > I will start looking into Selenium this weekend, but was wondering if >> anyone had any ideas that might point me in one or other direction. >> >> Thanks >> >> Paul Hollyer >> >> >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/b3a6c12e-4bf0-414f-8cb9-2bfe7d1de889%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
