Hi i was wondering is there a way to use ruby on rails to fill out fields in an external webpage submit it and get the result. Like ruby auto loggin in to a mail account and retrieving a mail or something like that? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Hi, Now if I understand you correctly what you''ve described here is a simple HTTP transaction which can be performed by pretty much every modern programming tool out there. What do you need Rails for here? Cheers, Yury On 5/9/07, Hector Matrix <rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote:> > Hi i was wondering is there a way to use ruby on rails to fill out > fields in an external webpage submit it and get the result. Like ruby > auto loggin in to a mail account and retrieving a mail or something like > that? > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > >-- Best regards, Yuri Leikind --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
i live in mexico and theres a page for sending free sms to cellphones but its full of publicity , it has 3 fields with name , phone number and message. i want to make an app on ruby on rails so that it fills this fields and click submit withouth me having to actually enter this page. i dont know if im making my self clear i hope i am thnx for the help. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Yuri''s point was that Rails is a framework for building database-backed web applications. You probably just need a command-line script... er, unless maybe you wanted to make your own web page that called the other web page but didn''t have the ads... yeah, I can see that. Anyway, what you need is a web scraping tool. Popular tools I''ve heard of (but have not used) are scrubyt (http://scrubyt.org) and hpricot (http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/) You might also do some googling for a Ruby SMS library (uh, like ruby-sms: http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-sms/) and just do the SMS work yourself... then you don''t have the overhead of scraping the SMS website and you''re not dependent on them being up. b Hector Matrix wrote:> i live in mexico and theres a page for sending free sms to cellphones > but its full of publicity , it has 3 fields with name , phone number and > message. i want to make an app on ruby on rails so that it fills this > fields and click submit withouth me having to actually enter this page. > i dont know if im making my self clear i hope i am thnx for the help. >--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---