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. 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 rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/867f7016-73e4-4d5c-9412-58ee00abe360%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
