Mar 16
Web Automation - Webrat & IRB
I've been looking for a simple method of parsing, clicking and navigation to build web automation scripts. Thankfully, Bryan Helmkamp & Seth Fitzsimmons developed the easy-to-use Rails acceptance testing system, Webrat. Through Mechanize, you can remotely select, enter data, and pull data. Now if you just want to scrape, you can use webrat-scraper, but if you want to be more involved, test through IRB. This is fairly straightforward, after figuring out how to get Mechanize going.Fire up Webrat and get your automation goodness going:
irb
require "mechanize"
require "webrat"
include Webrat::Matchers
include Webrat::Methods
Webrat.configure {|c| c.mode = :mechanize}
Webrat::Methods.delegate_to_session :response_code, :response_body
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