Mechanize users - May 2007 - Setting form-values

Hi,

I''ve recently had some trouble setting form values in my code - for
example:

require ''rubygems''
require ''mechanize''
def save(pagename, content, editsummary = '''')
    agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
    agent.user_agent = ''Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT
5.1)''
    page =
agent.get(''http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title='' +
pagename
+ ''&action=edit'')
    form = page.forms.with.name("editform").first
    form.wpTextbox1 = content
    form.wpSummary = editsummary
    page = agent.submit form
end
save(''User:Tim.bounceback/testing'', ''bleh'')

Yields the following error message:
bleh.rb:8:in `save'': undefined method `wpTextbox1='' for
nil:NilClass
(NoMethodError)
        from bleh.rb:12
Any help would be appreciated

Thanks!

Tim
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On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 01:27:11PM -0400, Timothy van Bremen
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I''ve recently had some trouble setting form values in my code -
for example:
> 
> require ''rubygems''
> require ''mechanize''
> def save(pagename, content, editsummary = '''')
>    agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
>    agent.user_agent = ''Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows
NT 5.1)''
>    page =
agent.get(''http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title='' +
pagename
> + ''&action=edit'')
>    form = page.forms.with.name("editform").first
>    form.wpTextbox1 = content
>    form.wpSummary = editsummary
>    page = agent.submit form
> end
> save(''User:Tim.bounceback/testing'',
''bleh'')
> 
> Yields the following error message:
> bleh.rb:8:in `save'': undefined method `wpTextbox1='' for
nil:NilClass
> (NoMethodError)
>        from bleh.rb:12
> Any help would be appreciated
There doesn''t seem to be any form with the name
''editform''.  I verified
that in my browser and with mechanize.

-- 
Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/

OK, but what''s this?

<form id="editform" name="editform"
method="post"
action="/w/index.php?title=%27User:Tim.bounceback/testing%27&amp;action=submit"
enctype="multipart/form-data">

It can be found on line 126 (for me).

Tim




-- 
Tim: "So would that be a paradox?"
Andy: "No, that would just create a hole in the space-time continuum."

On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 09:06:50AM -0400, Timothy van Bremen
wrote:
> OK, but what''s this?
> 
> <form id="editform" name="editform"
method="post"
>
action="/w/index.php?title=%27User:Tim.bounceback/testing%27&amp;action=submit"
> enctype="multipart/form-data">
> 
> It can be found on line 126 (for me).
Are you logged in to wikipedia in your browser?  I think you have to be
logged in to get that form.  If thats the case, you''d have to get
mechanize to log in to wikipedia before it could see that form.

-- 
Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/