Automated Form Filling [Off Topic(ish)]

Rails
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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 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

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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

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On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 4:46:54 PM UTC, Frederick C. wrote:

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.

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